Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I could understand if unit 153 involved some light reconfiguration, but what is going on in there at the moment is heavy reconstruction. This shell of a building will never be able to be used by any other Department now after this work has happened unless the Department gets in the big diggers and pulls it all out again.

Going back to the airport, that passport control is the gateway to Ireland. It is where people first interact with Shannon Airport and the Wild Atlantic Way. Most of the airport has been overhauled in recent years with some really nice capital redevelopment refurbishment works, but that passport control area is for An Garda Síochána, and my understanding is it has always been OPW controlled. It does not fit in with the rest of the shiny airport. It needs some remedial work. It needs to be brought up to a more modern standard. We heard that is in the pipeline at some point. I would love to hear if there are some positive indications in terms of what the Minister of State has planned there.

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