Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

More people are choosing to take public transport to the airport, and then the two will travel forward. We believe we would have enough spaces then to operate year round. There is no guarantee that everyone coming to an airport at any time of the year in any part of the world will always get a car parking space, but, generally, those 6,200 spaces will give us enough spaces for the years ahead as public transportation catches up and gets more people moving from their own private cars to taking public transport to the airport.

As the Deputy rightly points out, the hysteria is not required. A person can go onto the website today and find a space in July or August and people can drop somebody off this coming weekend. It is working smoothly. We were right to come out and say that if people are planning to travel for two weeks in August and if they think that they can just drive up on the day and come into any car park and take a ticket, as they did a few years ago, and it will work that way, we cannot guarantee that this will be the case.

We do not want to block the roadways and create that difficulty for people. We are right to warn people, but the hysteria that was portrayed in the media is not the case. Some of the media would love to keep talking about Dublin Airport. Thanks to our team, we have a very good and stable operation. Some people want to talk about car parking and everything else, but the operation is stable. As far as I am concerned, the car parking situation is stable. People can still get spaces, but they should get ahead of the game and book early. At that point, I hope we have spaces for them.