Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA

1:10 pm

Photo of Alan FarrellAlan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Jacobs. I will rattle off three quick questions. The DAA's projection is already 6% above the profile from 2023. I find it very hard to understand how the DAA will be able to credibly manage the 32 million passengers. I respect the fact that is trying, but it is already 6% over-profile. Will the IAA ruling regarding the winter schedule mitigate that, notwithstanding anything that might occur with Aer Lingus? My understanding that the DAA's complaint management system has been up and down a little bit of late. Please comment on this and any improvements to be made to it. It has been reported to me in my constituency and in Meath, that it has been up and down. The charge made by Ryanair, which has not really been addressed here, is that certain infrastructural changes, subject to permission through Fingal County Council, are purely there to increase the DAA's charges. I ask Mr. Jacobs to respond to that because I do not think he has.

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