Mr. Michael O'Leary:

To be fair, no. It is not getting ahead of the Government. The DAA is doing what it always does and feathering its own nest. Its traffic is capped. That is the DAA’s fault. The DAA should have made this planning application five or ten years ago and got the cap lifted. As usual, there was inaction. Let us say that nothing can be done for the next four years and traffic remains capped at 32 million passengers per year. Why would the DAA’s primary plan be to spend €250 million building a tunnel that goes nowhere? If the airport’s traffic is capped for the next four years, stop wasting money on facilities like a tunnel that none of the airlines at Dublin Airport supports. The DAA should be trying to expand some of the gate facilities and customer-facing facilities within the terminal building. It is a dereliction by the DAA’s management that it has not expanded car parking availability at Dublin Airport since last summer.