Kill off the Dublin airport white elephant and sell Cork and Shannon

I WISH to correct the numerous misleading claims made by the Paul O’Kane of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) in his letter (November 17) regarding the DAA and its white elephant, €1.3bn Terminal Two (T2).

* While the Government and airlines supported the need for a low-cost (€170m) T2 in 2003, this was supposed to be an independent competitor to the high-cost, inefficient DAA monopoly.

* The Department of Transport announced in 2005 that the contract for the second terminal would instead be awarded to the DAA monopoly which had so spectacularly mismanaged the existing terminal.