Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion

Mr. Dalton Philips:

The €97 million was from the Government explicitly for the airlines to incentivise them to operate schedules this summer. The Deputy will remember that no commentator believed that traffic would come back to pre-Covid levels until 2024 or 2025. Out of concern for that and all that needed to be done to incentivise traffic in and out of the country, the Government put in €97 million. We did not receive a single penny of that. It went to the airlines in terms of reduced airport charges.

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