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:

None, but there will be a new parliament and new Commission. I am ever optimistic that a new parliament and new Commission might be more willing. Everybody we meet in Brussels - every Commissioner, every parliamentarian - says we must fix that but it is France, and you know what the French are like. If you go back to when air travel was first deregulated, as Senator Craughwell said - I am not quite as old as Senator Craughwell but in my day, when we went on rugby tours-----