Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

Cork is the capital of the southern region and international flights from America cannot land in Cork Airport even though it is the gateway to the south. When will Government aviation policy deal with the cost of airport landing charges, handling fees, the €10 travel tax and the monopoly exercised by the Dublin Airport Authority over Cork and Shannon airports? When will the Minister be fair to the regions? There is talk about balanced development and the national spatial strategy and all of that but when Dublin controls everything, the rest suffers. When will it end?