Following his apology last night, the Government does not plan to remove Mr Dermot O'Leary from the board of Aer Rianta.
Mr O'Leary wrote a letter to the Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms O'Rourke, saying that he wished to "apologise unreservedly" to her and the Government in relation to the incident at Dublin Airport on December 29th involving Mr Liam Lawlor and his wife Hazel.
Ms O'Rourke said last night she accepted the apology.
However, Fine Gael's public enterprise spokesman, Mr Jim Higgins, said the party would table a motion of notice to be taken when the Dáil resumes to have Mr O'Leary removed from the board.
The apology was faxed to the Minister by Mr O'Leary who is Malaga, Spain. It followed a meeting between Aer Rianta chairman Mr Noel Hanlon and Ms O'Rourke earlier yesterday evening.
In his three-paragraph letter, Mr O'Leary said that when Mrs Lawlor telephoned him he decided to make contact with the duty manager at Dublin Airport to ascertain if anything could be done on compassionate grounds for her arrival as she was highly distressed.
"My contact was purely as a humanitarian gesture on behalf of Mrs Lawlor. I did not foresee the difficulty that this might cause to my fellow directors, to Aer Rianta, to the Government and particularly to yourself," he said in the letter.
Ms O'Rourke said she would brief the Taoiseach Mr Ahern, the Tánaiste Ms Harney, and the Minister for Finance Mr McCreevy.
It is believed that Ms O'Rourke was told by the Attorney General yesterday that on grounds of natural justice, even if it were wished it would not be possible to remove Mr O'Leary from his post.