Dan Boyle (Green Party)

It is not so much the absence as the silence for which I was grateful.

I refer to a point raised on the Order of Business about Cork Airport's debt. The factual situation is that the Government appointed an intermediary, Peter Cassells, whose report was accepted, albeit reluctantly, by the board of Cork Airport. This level of debt is not sustainable but a process has been undergone and the bodies appointed by the State have accepted that——