Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

On buses and taxis, I agree it could be better. Generally, in my view, people are having a good experience at Dublin Airport, although the bus and taxi experience can improve. Approximately 90% of people get a taxi within ten minutes, but the waiting time tends to increase if there is a gig in the 3 Arena or a big sporting occasion, when there is generally a shortage of taxis in Dublin. We have actively worked with taxi drivers to get more supply coming to the airport and that has worked, but we want to get more. We are looking at improving the areas where people wait for a taxi in T1 and T2 and that is part of the infrastructure application, and we are actively encouraging greater frequencies of buses and a better network of buses. I fully agree that can improve. People coming to the airport on buses is good for sustainability and we want also to further improve the provision of taxis. The international benchmark is the transport options you have when you arrive in Madrid or another capital city, and we need to improve that. It includes the airport but also beyond the airport, which we do not control. I hope it will improve.

On hotels, I also agree with the Deputy. We are not in the hotel business but we are looking at another hotel being added. We want to have an expansion of the hotel facilities because there is consumer demand for people to fly in and stay near to the airport because it is easier to get home the next day. I fully agree we want to add hotel capacity and that is generally required in Ireland.

The split in passengers between T1 and T2 is about 55% or 60% to 40% or 45%, respectively. It varies between the seasons but that is typically what it is. T1 is the busier terminal.

On the plan to go from 32 million passengers to 40 million, that ties in with Fingal's development plan. It is a number that will secure the connectivity and jobs and give us what we need at Dublin Airport until 2035 or something like that, but we will look beyond that. To clarify, on the cap, we are counting every single passenger, but we are just not double-counting the transfers. In my earlier example, if you come from Birmingham to Dublin and then go to JFK, we count that as one passenger because it is someone flying on one trip. We are not counting them once as coming from Birmingham and then again for their journey to JFK. We are just removing the double count. Every passenger is being counted in our compliance with the 32 million cap.

On car parking, we need more spaces. The Quick Park site is being determined by the competition and regulatory review. We hope that will be decided in our favour, which will give us an additional 6,000 spaces. If that happens, I do not think we will have a problem. We manage car parks quite well but we will need those extra spaces. I hope we will get a positive decision there, which will give us those extra spaces in time for next Easter and the summer.

On the land bank, we want it. We have made an offer for the land and that offer stands. Whether the owners come back to us on that offer, that is up to them, but our offer stands. They have said they have had multiple offers, and I read recently there was talk of going for planning on a third terminal. That would take a long time. It would take us a long time to get planning for a third terminal on the western part of the airfield. For someone else to do it, it will take even longer, but we are definitely interested in the land, which is why we have made a serious offer for it. Ultimately, we are the best owner for the land, but I reiterate that must be at the right price. We do not see it as being absolutely necessary and strategic but we see it as tactically very useful for us. We would put stands there and extend an apron there and might do a few additional other things, but we want the land and that is why we have made an offer for it.