Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

There is no doubt about it. All those factors contribute to the issues at Dublin Airport. Deputy Mitchell, and Deputy Shortall earlier, enunciated what people reporting on these issues do not understand. There are two capacity problems emerging at Dublin Airport. We have not passed them by because clearly they exist. One is airside for airline capacity, and that compounds the internal dynamics of capacity within the airport. The other, which I would not have thought about it this way until someone pointed it out to me but it is interesting, is that the space in Dublin Airport from landside to airside is very narrow. There is a great deal of activity in a small area. I agree with the Taoiseach and the figures indicate that we need extra capacity. We need extra airside capacity by 2007. That is on the record.

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