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- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: Hangar four, which can accommodate four narrow bodied aircraft at one time, is vacant. Hangar six is the 24,000 sq. m. facility held under licence by Aer Lingus, which requires it for its wide bodied aircraft.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: No other hangar in Dublin Airport can take wide bodied aircraft. All the other hangars can take the aircraft in question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: These are the facts. If 6,000 sq. m. is required at Prestwick to create half the jobs, as Ryanair outlined last week, is it too much too assume that a similar floor area would be suitable to create the remaining jobs here? Two hangars are available at present for this work. Given that hangars one and two were subject to negotiation between Ryanair and DAA, it is not a case of the airline...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: These are the facts.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: I make it clear that this Government is anxious to facilitate, in every way we possibly can, the provision of those jobs for Dublin Airport. Two hangars are available at present and we are prepared to build another one. However, hangar six, which is 24,000 sq. m. or four times the size of the facility in Prestwick, is under licence to another company. DAA has a commercial mandate and those...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: I am sorry, but I have seen the licence agreement. The Deputy might not have seen it. Twenty four months notice has to be given, not 12.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: It was signed between the DAA and Aer Lingus because they are the parties to the agreement.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: Let us have the facts of the situation. The facts are as I have set them out.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: We want to deal with this matter. We want to proceed to work with Ryanair, but a landlord cannot eject a tenant where there is no breach of contract on the basis of a licensed agreement signed in November 2009.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: This is a serious matter.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: I do not know who the last effort was intended to impress but the termination of a licence for the sole purpose of giving a hangar to Ryanair does not constitute operational development reasons. Even if it did, one would still be required to give two years notice. They are the terms of the licence.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: If, in that event-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: If, in that event, there was a definition for operational development reasons-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: -----which these present circumstances do not constitute, but even if there were, as contemplated by the agreement, we would be required to compensate Aer Lingus. We would also be required to give it facilities similar to what we were asking it to leave.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: That is what one does. Deputy's Kenny's philosophy is that one does not mess with the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: The Government cannot mess with contracts that have a legal validity.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: The Government is not above the law. The point I am trying to make to Deputy Kenny is that one cannot simply walk out to Dublin Airport, tear up a licence agreement, tell the existing tenant to leave in order to facilitate this particular requirement, as if it is the only viable option available. It is not the only viable option available.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: We want to protect jobs. We want to provide that facility. There are two hangars in existence at the moment, similar to what has been sufficient in Prestwick to bring 200 jobs there to deal with that issue, so where is the rationale and logic behind Deputy Kenny's position that says go out and tear up agreements-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2010)
Brian Cowen: -----and make sure that this can happen? It can happen without tearing up any agreements.