Mary White (Fianna Fail)

The chairman designate has said he will double Shannon Airport's passenger numbers to 4 million. In the days of the Iron Curtain when Russia was the bête noire of the world, Shannon Airport, under Mr. Skelly, allowed Aeroflot to land there en route to Cuba. Shannon Airport came to an imaginative arrangement with Aeroflot to establish Aerofirst, providing the first duty free shops in Moscow, Kiev and St. Petersburg. I worked with the people involved in this enterprise, all Clare entrepreneurs. I am not allowed to mention names but if I can just praise Mr. Skelly——