Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion

Mr. Basil Geoghegan:

It was. That has been reduced, to do the like-for-like, to somewhere around €7.75. That is nearly €2 per passenger and when one considers the more than 30 million passengers per annum going through the airport, that amounts to millions of euro which is effectively a value transfer from the taxpayer of Ireland to the airlines, because unless the airlines reduce their fares by the equivalent amount, that is where it goes. I do not blame them, by the way, because they are commercial organisations. However, we would like to see charges calculated on the basis of the current reality as opposed to a very optimistic outlook in 2019.

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