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State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: Nothing new there anyway. Talk about consistent.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: Deputy Allen's animosity towards me has been consistent for the past five years.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: Especially Deputy Allen's inconsistency.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy should name them.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: He cannot name one.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: The lot of them would run Cork into the ground.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy is wrong again. Where did that happen, just as a matter of interest?

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: A new €180 million terminal sounds good to me. It is more than that lot ever did for Cork Airport.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: They do not even know what regional development means.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: Is Fine Gael in Waterford against it? Is that the Fine Gael position? I will raise it in the morning and ask them to tell the people that is the position. That is fine.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: I wonder why Dublin Airport is quite happy to keep it. It would prefer to have it. That is the irony.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: I suppose that is my fault as well.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: Some of the comments made by the Opposition represent the type of politics that leaves a very sour taste in my mouth and a sense of despair over the level to which politics has descended among some people, particularly members of the Opposition, in that they would wilfully undermine a substantial national asset, not just an asset of their own region, to put forward a political agenda.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: God be with the days when there were at least men of stature with some courage in the Fine Gael Party and not men of straw as we have witnessed here tonight.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: The State Airports Act 2004 provides the framework for the establishment of Shannon and Cork Airports as independent airports. As part of the airport restructuring process, the boards of Cork and Shannon Airports are required to prepare business plans for eventual separation. That is their remit, not mine. In the first instance, all three airports' business plans must be co-ordinated by...

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: The distributable reserves needed to comply with all elements of company law, with which the Deputy should be more than familiar——

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: ——will not be available and are not at present.

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: I am fulfilling that promise utterly. If Cork Airport Authority wants to wait until the distributable reserves of the Dublin Airport Authority are available——

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: The irony is that Dublin Airport is quite happy to keep Cork Airport. The deal is disastrous from the Dublin Airport Authority's point of view. It is giving away one of the most valuable assets in its group while having to sell off and maximise all the others. It would want to keep Cork Airport within its remit because it is a very successful airport and makes a very substantial...

State Airports. (21 Feb 2007)

Martin Cullen: I am fully supportive of Cork Airport's wish for autonomy earlier than originally planned and the need to operate effectively and commercially to serve the needs of tourism, trade and travel in its hinterland. A financial mechanism will have to be found so that Cork Airport can shoulder a reasonable share of the debt burden associated with the assets transferred to it. Any resolution of the...