Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion
Mr. Kenny Jacobs:
A third terminal is part of the functionality and modularity of how Dublin Airport could develop. To get to a 40 million airport, hypothetically, do we need a third airport? No, we do not. To get to a 50 million airport, decades away, is there a need for a third terminal? Probably. That is something I would see as being on either side of the existing two terminals. Much of this is being driven by a public transportation strategy going forward. To take the far side of the airfield and to have a third terminal there, would require public transportation. We are all trying to make metro north and BusConnects go faster in terms of their delivery to the existing front door of the airfield of Dublin Airport, on the east side of airport. We are better off focusing on doing that first. The logical place for a third terminal is alongside the existing T1 and T2, not on the far side of the airfield. That is why I am saying we do not see it immediately.
We do not look at the land and say that is where the terminal should be. In any event, a third terminal would not be between two runways.