Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

EU Regulation No. 598/2014 deals with operating restrictions at EU airports. I have asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Government's plans on this. It would effectively set up the Irish Aviation Authority as the competent body and could see it setting aside An Bord Pleanála planning conditions for the additional runway at Dublin Airport. The latter is a development I support but An Bord Pleanála has put in night-flight and noise-related restrictions. Does the Government plan to simply transpose the regulation by way of statutory instrument or will it bring it forward by primary legislation? Is the Taoiseach aware that, should the Government to this, it will be undermining the independent planning process in this country, namely An Bord Pleanála?

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