Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will finish up with a point on the cap. Fingal has advised in preplanning that on the infrastructure application, the cap applies to all passengers, including transit passengers, and to counting transfers twice. I do not want to speak for the entire committee but believe members, including me, are not satisfied that we have had a satisfactory explanation as to why the DAA takes an exceptional approach to the counting of passengers in respect of the cap.

It was mentioned that in 2016 the DAA was working on the flight paths and that they were in the public domain. The witnesses made it seem that flight paths from August 2022 and modifications thereafter were being publicly discussed. They were not. The east–west flight paths were the only ones that the public and we, as public representatives, ever saw until August 2022 and the first day of-----