Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed)
Mr. Donal Moriarty:
I will add that we have concerns about the pace of delivery. The latest version of the national aviation policy was published in 2015. It had within it an objective for the development Dublin Airport as a hub. The capital investment programme that has been put in place has the ambition to deliver on that hub infrastructure. However, the likely timing for delivery of the majority of that infrastructure is 2029, which is a full 15 years after the development of the policy imperative to do so. We are concerned about that, because the northern runway is very welcome but it needs the supporting infrastructure in the form of stands and piers to optimise and maximise its usage.
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