Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We are not looking at what might be the issue this year or next year, but forward to ten or 15 years, which is the right thing to do.

With regard to the airport, it would have been cheaper a number of years ago to build it to accommodate 30 million people, but everybody said the maximum figure before 2010 would be 10 million or 12 million. We should not play games with this issue. The reality is that we have to try to provide for 30 million or 40 million users.

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