Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority

Ms Catherine Gubbins:

In general, our approach to the insulation and other sound proofing for the houses impacted, has been to do more rather than less. We have insulated some 150 houses. The total number of houses that we have committed to insulating is 200. I believe 150 of those have been done already. In general, we have gone over and above requirements that were placed on us under the planning permission that was in place. We do not regard houses as having been insulated unnecessarily, to be honest. On the basis that we are trying to go back to the original flight path, I do not believe it is an issue per se. Over the next period we are trying to understand if there are houses that are now going to be impacted that we had not previously assessed. We will certainly consider what mitigation measures we can make available to those houses.

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