Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Proposals for Second Runway at Dublin Airport and Noise Regulation Legislation: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport

10:45 am

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. I am just laying it out for the other members. Staff will have to be recruited at Fingal County Council because it does not have all the necessary expertise. However, that would also have had to happen if the Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, had been made the responsible authority because it did not have the staff either. There was not a body in Ireland waiting for this particularly specialist call on noise regulation. There is not such a body in existence anywhere. People have to be recruited to do it, and they will be recruited for Fingal County Council, but they would have to be recruited also for the IAA.

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