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

Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

I hope we will get planning permission from Fingal County Council within months. Obviously, it will be appealed and the matter will go to An Bord Pleanála.

There will then will be a process. Hopefully, it will take two years from us submitting our case to An Bord Pleanála making a determination. Once the cap is lifted, which will ultimately be a decision for An Bord Pleanála, we will then be able to operate to a bigger number while building things for a more sustainable airport. As already stated, there were 120,000 passengers last Sunday. We already operate, and I am sure we can operate safely and efficiently, to about 40 million a year. There were 120,000 passengers last Sunday and they all got through security in the right amount of time. Standards are really good. We are already able to do that. The demand is already there.

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