Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement
2:00 am
Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I appreciate that. It is a majority. Something like 60% or 70% is being picked up by the Woodcock Hill radar. For disclosure, I own farmland abutting that facility and am from that community. It concerns me. Woodcock Hill has existed since the 1970s and that radar is all-important, above everything, to air safety, but it is also a lucrative national asset. Many of those aircraft that pass over Irish airspace in the morning are not touching down. They are going on to Frankfurt, Heathrow and wherever else they are going. They have to pay a fee to Ireland through the IAA. I understand it is revenue-generating.
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