Independent, debt-free airport all that matters

I REFER to your editorial (Irish Examiner, February 21) in which you question my motives for speaking out against the proposal to saddle an independent Cork airport with a debt of €100 million.

I have always been, and will continue to be, a staunch supporter of an independent, debt-free Cork airport.

A year ago I was the first politician to obtain from Transport Minister Martin Cullen an admission that Cork airport may have to carry some of the debt from the building of the new terminal.