Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for being here today. I have quite a few questions and I will go through them quickly if possible. Mr. Jacobs said that DAA wants to get ahead of it all. I think he was talking about the pressures of the cap and everything else. Does he feel that Dublin Airport Authority has rushed in, got ahead of the Government's plan, blindsided the Government even, by getting its planning application into the system before the national aviation policy is looked at? Ireland is not just about one airport on the east coast; there are many more airports. There is Shannon in my constituency, Cork and Knock. The national aviation policy looks comprehensively at all Irish airports. Has DAA got ahead of all that process by putting its planning application in before that even begins?