Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Mattie McGrath shared with us that he would want to be defrosted.

When people again see scenes of delay and cancellations in Dublin Airport there is a real concern over the ongoing lack of preparedness. I accept that the Dublin Airport Authority and the airlines have a case to answer here, but ultimately public confidence will only be built if there is a sense that the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, actually has a plan. I accept that others have met and made contingency arrangements during a snap of very hard cold weather. This close to Christmas with so many people coming home we need public reassurance that the Minister is fully engaged. I ask the Taoiseach to give more detail of that. He said there was a meeting with the Dublin Airport Authority. What was the upshot of that? It is not the only airport on the island, but it is the key hub airport.

For a long time, some local residents have sought a meeting with the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, in respect of a change to flight patterns outside of the planning permission that had been granted. If he is, as the Taoiseach claims, wide awake, bright eyed and bushy-tailed, could he do these residents the good grace of meeting them?

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