Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have two more questions. With regard to the noise impacts on residents, we know the history of it but we now have residents being impacted by noise on a number of levels. I mentioned the on-the-ground noise. In terms of the flight paths, however, homes are being overflown now that were never under any insulation scheme. We could go around the houses on that. Is there any talk within the DAA of revisiting this issue in terms of the homes that are now being overflown with the new standard instrument departures, SIDs? We know from what we have heard in this committee what the future of the north runway is going to look like now in terms of those flight deviations and SIDs. We know from the WHO the impact that aircraft noise has on people's mental and physical health. What we have been hearing from the DAA over the last couple of years is that noise insulation schemes are closed and are moving on and this is where it is at now. Is there scope for it to be reopened in a serious way that there would be a new scheme, or something beyond the new scheme, for those residents?