Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Aviation Policy: Ryanair
Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Cool. On airport charges, the witnesses have been clear. It is pier D rather than the tunnel, which, it is fair to say, Mr. O'Leary is not a supporter of. There is much conversation, some of it geographically on the basis of where some of the Deputies that sit around here are from. Regional balance is a responsibility of Government policy. Mr. O'Leary has given his opinion as to which regional airports are fit for purpose and which can do business. Sometimes we have ended up in cul-de-sac conversations when we had disasters at Dublin Airport or when we needed to shift something. There might have been a simple solution, but we could not implement it in the context of displacement. The reality is that regional airports will only work on the basis of doing their own business. That may involve connecting into hubs across Europe, but it cannot be about displacement. We need a real conversation on that, and to drive it at top level.
In the context of new flight, is it Libya and Egypt that Ryanair is looking at?
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