Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair
Mr. Michael O'Leary:
The Minister for Transport is Deputy Eamon Ryan and so much as we value the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, who is the aviation minister, this is a transport issue. I met the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, too, but I would have thought the advantage of having a Minister for Transport who is one of the triumvirate of party leaders who meet weekly to decide Government policy and so on is that we have a seat at a table where all these big decisions are being made, but there is nothing. We cannot get anything out of him.
We have an excellent aviation policy. Please implement and act on it. Which airports do this well? The best ones at the moment are Bergamo in Italy and Charleroi. Bergamo continues to expand every year. It expands the terminal. I do not know how Italy manages planning. We started flying to Bergamo 22 years ago this year. This year, Bergamo's traffic will be-----