Regina Doherty (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Will Mr. Jacobs give the committee, perhaps at a later date, evidence as to what his interpretation is based on. We are dancing around on the head of a pin. Mr. Jacobs talked earlier about the DAA being a good neighbour to the people in Fingal. I do not have any wish for the airport not to do well. I have been going to the airport since I played Space Invaders when I was a kid of four years old. I love the airport and probably visit it far too often. I am, however, telling Mr. Jacobs that the people in the surrounding areas, notwithstanding that 26% of the airport's staff live in Fingal, would not tell him that the DAA is a good neighbour. They have been fighting with the DAA for the past year over the fact that aircraft noise has been imposed on them when they were never told it was going to happen. The DAA never gave them the opportunity to sit in front of experts and talk about how to mitigate those issues and decide what to do.