Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)

I firmly support the Fine Gael amendment. The people of Clare, the mid-west and the entire western seaboard are angry because their livelihood is under threat and because this Government has allowed Aer Lingus walk away from the Shannon Heathrow slots. It is clear the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, does not understand the problems being encountered in the Shannon area, especially when he described our protests as a whinge.

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