James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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On the planning issue, it is interesting that there is no segregation within our planning system to identify projects that are incredibly important in the context of our national economic interests such as Dublin Airport. It is worth billions to our economy and yet the planning for it is handled at local authority level. It is the same for all of our airports, not just Dublin. I am focusing on Dublin because it is such a dominant force from a traffic point of view. What would Mr. O'Leary do differently in the interests of growing the aviation economy here, including passenger traffic in Dublin Airport, and the sector more generally? What would he do differently?