: I move amendment No. 34a.:
In page 30, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following subsection:
"(3) The company shall have power to sell any land it no longer requires."
This amendment is to add a very short subsection to the end of the section to give the company power to sell any land or property it no longer requires. It is given specific power in the section to acquire land and it is given a whole list of powers in an earlier section—a page or more of them—but it is not given the obvious power it should have to dispose of land. A company of this kind does not have this power unless it is specifically given it. It is not a residual power. It has to be given it specifically. To put the matter beyond doubt that should be done.
The company will have some holdings of land and buildings vested in it by the transfer and it will not need them for all time. It would be appropriate that it should be able to sell what it does not need. It will have land all over the country, particularly in the vicinity of airports. It should be able to sell the land to people who are prepared to but it or it should be able to sell it to Aer Rianta if Aer Rianta wants to extend an airport.