Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

Ms Niamh O'Brien:

Exactly, that is what is expected. In terms of the scope, it would be the three main airports, that is, airports with passenger numbers over 1 million or 100,000 tonnes of cargo. At the moment, that would just cover Dublin, Cork and Shannon. We have been in consultation through our national civil aviation development forum, NCADF, and the airports have been in touch with us to give their views on it. As the Senator mentioned, Dublin Airport is undertaking a feasibility study in regard to SAFs at the moment so there is no great objection to this proposal. As Mr. Burke said-----

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