Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Aviation Policy: Ryanair
Mr. Michael O'Leary:
I want to add to this but I will be careful. We are linking this to Ireland successfully rebalancing environmental taxation throughout Europe. The Irish Government should join other peripheral states in Europe and state it is no longer willing to accept that our passengers should pay all of the environmental burden. If the environmental tax reduced from €4.50 per passenger to €2 per passenger, we would deliver additional growth in Shannon and Cork in three years from the date it is reduced. We would not even have to wait five years. Because of scale, Dublin would take longer. We would commit to this additional growth. It would be the incentive. Shannon is already low cost. Cork is pretty low cost. It is the penalty of the environmental taxes in peripheral regional airports that is holding back very aggressive traffic development.
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