Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

General Scheme of the Airport Noise Regulation Bill 2018: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Ronan Gallagher:

There are a couple of points there. In our dealings with the European Commission in particular, my sense is that Regulation No. 598 was introduced because despite the 2002 directive, noise management at EU airports was not as proactive as it should be. I do not know the details of the 2002 directive but I know it is not as prescriptive as Regulation No. 598. The regulation is very prescriptive in terms of what is done at airports. There is no doubt about the fact that it is an extra layer of regulation that was not there previously. In terms of the performance of Fingal in the context of the effectiveness of the regulation, it can be a difficult thing to measure. It lends itself to subjectivity too but from our perspective, introducing another party into this space would have created a very complex administrative space.

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