Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Dublin Port Company: Chairperson Designate
12:30 pm
John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Thank you. I can see why Ms McCaffrey has been very busy and why she will be very busy, with all her plans and other roles. She talked about a €200 million investment to redevelop a large section of Dublin Port and she might elaborate on how that will be financed. What are the other elements of Dublin Port's masterplan? I see Ms McCaffrey has a vision to double the throughput from 29 million tonnes to 60 million tonnes by 2040. What implications has this for Dublin as a city and for the rest of the ports throughout the country? Is it a case of taking business from other ports or developing more business for Dublin itself? There is the issue of the overdevelopment of the east coast, Dublin in particular. How does that fit in to Ms McCaffrey's vision? She might deal with those two questions.
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