Mr. Michael O'Leary:

The DAA could not care less. It suits it fine to increase fees by 45% for the next four years. When you ask the DAA why it did not open some more car parks last winter on the land it owns around Dublin Airport, as it knew car parks would be full this summer, you are told that it was because it wanted to buy Q-Park. The DAA is a master at under-delivering capacity and increasing fees. That is what it does. It is unconscionable that the DAA did not go in with a single planning application to raise this cap, but instead chucked the kitchen sink into it. We listened today to how it has put in a planning application for aircraft spotters.

Is that now what is needed? Of course, it will be put into the regulatory asset base. That will go into the IAA and then we will have to increase charges again, so it can build some shiny new viewing platform for plane spotters.

The DAA continuously mismanages this airport. It should have submitted a single application, if only in terms of needing a temporary lift in this regard. There is a legislative basis for this there. It could have asked for a temporary raise in this cap to 36 million passengers for the next two years to allow the company to grow the number of jobs, etc. It would still have had to have gone through the planning process, but at least it would have been a much simpler plan. Instead, this 8,000- to 10,000-page document was put in. It has extensions to terminals and all this paraphernalia to make it more complicated. The DAA knows it is going to take four years. During this time, though, the DAA will have approval from its regulator to increase passenger fees by 46%.