Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Deputies will be cognisant of the fact that the problems faced by the residents will not stop the second runway. That will not happen because there is an overall national interest in putting the second runway there. The damage and the difficulties caused in their lives by the runway should be recognised in a material way. Some of these people have lived there for 30 or 40 years and the inconvenience, disturbance and disruption would be indefensible on its own but in the greater national interest, they must be compensated properly. I do not know whether that should be done by mitigation of noise or by monetary compensation but due consideration must be given to the difficulties in which they find themselves.

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