John Gerard Hanafin (Fianna Fail)

It has been misrepresented to these people and has become a charade.

I refer to the positive news that is still available to us. I wish to ask the Leader for a debate on transport with particular emphasis on the Dublin Airport Authority. We will shortly have the second terminal at Dublin Airport which will add at least €30 million in running costs alone, not to mention the retail aspect and the other positive aspects of being able to handle more traffic - up to 30 million passengers a year. There could also be the added value of metro north, which would become very viable with those sorts of numbers and more importantly a new development, Dublin Airport City, which is the new direction of airports to attract foreign direct investment and mobile finance, that is people who wish to have immediate access to do business with all the other areas with which they do businesses. Many thousands of jobs could be created and it would be well worth debating the positive developments in Dublin Airport.