Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 315: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 15 June 2004 if the Snow report, prepared in February 1996 on behalf of the Irish Aviation Authority and entitled Air Navigation Services — Planning Review, confirms at paragraph 3.4.2 thereof that the then Team Aer Lingus and now FLS hangar was developed within the red zone during a period when his Department had full responsibility for air safety matters at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38940/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Irish Aviation Authority, which is responsible for the regulation of aviation safety, was established in February 1994. The air navigation services office of the Department, whose functions were transferred to the Irish Aviation Authority, had responsibility for air safety matters when the hangar was built.

The Snow report noted that the hangar was essential to the business of the airport and integral and necessary to the activity of civil air transport and does not infringe on the protected surfaces in the red zone. I should also point out for the record that the hangar is now the property of SR Technics.

Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 316: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 28 October 2004 relating to the airport development plan of March 1968 for Dublin Airport inclusive of developmental restrictions associated with both proposed runways and runway extensions, if a similar plan was prepared in or around the same time for Cork Airport; if such a plan outlined similar restrictions on the existing Cork runways in addition to catering for proposed extensions; the details of such restrictions; if such a plan was conveyed by his Department to Cork County Council; if that council subsequently designated red zones in its county development plan based on the departmental plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38941/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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I understand that in the mid-1970s, a scheme showing restrictions that were considered necessary for the purposes of air safety was forwarded to Cork County Council. I am advised by the Dublin Airport Authority that the scheme took account, inter alia, of a possible future extension of runway 17/35 at Cork Airport. The subsequent incorporation of any or all of that information into the county development plan of the time was of course a matter for Cork County Council.