Madam - Donal Moore (April 26th) doubts the efficacy, indeed the very existence of competing terminals at airports, and seeks examples of same. To assist him in his ontological journey let me point out that the five terminals at JFK, the three terminals at Toronto, the domestic terminals in Australian airports and the new international terminal at Istanbul all are privately owned and operated.
The problem with Dublin airport is not ontological: we know that many terminal models exist; it is rather epistemological, in that the Government appear to have yet decided what it is they wish to know. In seeking justified true belief the government are to be applauded, but the operation of the Gettier problem - denying the existence of same - will founder any such argosy. Better, then, to adopt a contextual argument: another terminal is needed in the context of the mess the existing one is in. - Yours, etc,
BRIAN LUCEY, Sallins, Co Kildare.