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 will have 40 more officers this weekend. We have brought officers up from Cork, which we are grateful for. We have an extensive overtime package in place, which is triple time. We are releasing all available security staff from other activities they might have been doing across the airport and we will be consolidating some of our gate posters. Those are some of our outside gate posts where some of the cargo and other equipment comes into the airport. We will be doing a consolidation period to make sure we have 10% more lane processing. We have our task force of 450 people who do not work in front-line roles who are all doing activities. I worked Monday last week at 3 a.m., and I will work Friday and Saturday to get in there and help. Those are the sort of contingencies we are putting in place.

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