Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In terms of the air noise that has impacted on these residents, they go to ANCA and to their local councillors, who are getting huge pressure, but ANCA is saying it is not its problem, the DAA is saying it did not know until the first flight took off, and the IAA is wiping its hands of it. Everyone is just throwing their hands up in the air and asking how anyone could possibly plan a runway that cost so much and had so much public consultation and then, on the morning of the first flights going out, no one knew that the first flights were going to take a right turn in the way they did. There is huge anger and there is a big meeting tomorrow night about it. I hope that, over the course of the next few weeks, we will have further clarification and that we can start to rebuild trust, but there is a lot of understandable anger out there.

I will move to the pricing. Point 11 of the DAA submission states that the regulator disallowed the recruitment of 240 of the security staff needed at Dublin by 2026 because of its decision on pricing. I am very clear that I understand the pricing. I am not saying we have to bring the prices down. I know there is no link with the price of flights, as the witnesses outlined, and we need to fund and be able to invest in our airports. However, this is the standout line in the whole DAA submission and in the contributions, that the DAA is now saying that 240 staff cannot be hired because of this pricing decision. Is the DAA saying that clearly?