Noel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has said that every time there is a planning application at the airport, the implications for noise are also considered. The Minister might recall from our meeting in October 2016 that for many communities, the current ongoing issues are the problem, as is the consistent breach of the airport's operating hours. Rather than future planning permissions or expansion, it is the inability to adhere to the existing commitments given by the airport and an inability for the communities in Turnapin and Royal Oak to get accurate measurements of the noise they suffer too regularly.

We are at the end of term and have had differences on policy issues including electric scooters, BusConnects and the metro and the Minister called me a populist at our last interaction here.

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