Mr. Donal Moriarty:

I can address the tunnel issue. There is a plan in the capital investment programme for a tunnel to be built between piers 2 and 3, under the taxiway and the crosswind runway, across to the west side of the airport. There are significant stands on the west of the airport. Dublin Airport is stand-constrained.

Stands are required everywhere - in the south, north and west of the airport. We do not object to the building of the tunnel but we are concerned about its prioritisation over the delivery of other infrastructure. It is our view that stand availability is more critical in the south and north of the airfield, rather than the west. Ultimately, the delivery of stand availability for passenger traffic in the west will be important to the airport but it must not be to the detriment of its delivery elsewhere. We see the tunnel and the west being important, but the south and north should come first in the order of priority.