Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am tight on time, but before Mr. MacCarthy contributes, I wish to raise a matter that relates to the cap on parking at Dublin. Has anyone examined the idea of the airport having a park-and-ride facility in Naas or somewhere similar on the western road? My mother trained as a nurse in the UK. In her early days of travelling to the UK, people would check in somewhere on O’Connell Street and be taken by bus to the airport. If the DAA wants to solve the problem, it has to be a little more imaginative than just looking at car park capacity on the airfield or in close proximity to it. The DAA could consider having facilities further out along any of the motorways, including the M50. Perhaps it could do it more cheaply, but it would at least reduce traffic and put people onto buses.