Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will ask about Alliance Aviation, which is an important customer of DAA. It brings a lot of private passengers and private aviation through the airport. I will put a scenario to the representatives. My understanding is that since July of last year, non-commercial passenger traffic, including Alliance Aviation, is directed to the west apron when it lands at Dublin Airport. Passengers then disembark and are transported by car or bus around the airport perimeter to get to the platinum lounge, which is a circuitous journey that takes approximately 20 minutes. It is not really what business passengers want when they land in Ireland. It gives a fairly poor first impression of Ireland, when people arrive and have to do this big lap around the airport. Alliance Aviation, and other companies, has offered to develop facilities within the curtilage of the airport from its own coffers. Will the representatives comment on that? Is Dublin Airport meeting the benchmark for private jet aviation and business travellers when they are made to take this big route around the airport's outer perimeter?