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:

We currently have 535 security staff in what we call central processing, that is, terminals 1 and 2. We are going to take that number from 535 to 702 members by the end of June. That is a gap of 167. We will increase it to 702 and then we will try to go again to 800 through the summer. Of that gap of 167, therefore, we have 104 in training and 63 who are in a pipeline.

The reality is that it is slow to get people in, however. We want to get people on the flights. There is a reason why the staff are feeling like that. I have had an opportunity to work in a number of different companies. I have never worked in a company where there is such pride, which I think the Deputy knows as well as I do, felt by the front-line officers right across the board. There is incredible pride. That is why they feel down, and we feel that we have let them down. We let them down this weekend with the rostering error that occurred.

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