Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail)

Senators Ryan and McCarthy should be more concerned with the content of the Minister's speech today. According to the Minister, the new Cork Airport will have a passenger capacity of 3 million when completed. The airport has almost reached this capacity. If I were Senator Ryan or Senator McCarthy, I would be more interested in increasing this capacity to 5 million immediately.

The plan set out in the State Airports Bill 2004 introduced by the former Minister for Transport has worked and the Opposition knows this. While we all appreciate that an election is looming and that the Opposition would like to take one or two of the ten Fianna Fáil seats in Cork, it will not do so by spinning untruths in this House or in Cork.