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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: The Department of Transport figure for last year, if we take transit passengers, is not 31.9 million. Mr. Jacobs just said there were 500,000 transit passengers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: That is approximately 500,000 transit passengers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: The figure is still more than 33 million according to the Department of Transport. The cap is being breached. That is the reality. On the planning application to increase the cap to 40 million that went in before Christmas, Mr. Jacobs mentioned the tunnel being needed for the airport to be at 45 million passenger capacity. The figure of 50 million passengers has already been mentioned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: The DAA is seven months on from making the biggest planning application in the history of Fingal County Council. It is saying to us today that it might now consider an operational-only planning application to increase the passenger cap.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Why did the DAA not do it last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: The DAA is probably the most experienced organisation in Fingal with regard to making planning applications. It beggars belief it would have made that planning application and is now considering an operational one. In the context of the planning application that was submitted, in response to a parliamentary question and direct contact from me, I know the DAA is exploring placing an earth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: What is the DAA's level of engagement with either the EPA or Fingal County Council in relation to the placement of noise monitors and air pollution monitors? Can we get more of them placed in areas such as south Swords and St. Margaret's where residents are calling for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Last week, Michael O'Leary came before the committee. Perhaps it was entertaining for some people watching in but I found it quite unproductive in terms of getting any real detail. He was excoriating in his criticism of the management of the DAA over many years. This is not a surprise. Mr. Jacobs has a history in terms of Ryanair. I must ask a question in the public interest. According...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Does Mr. Jacobs still hold Ryanair stock now that he is chief executive of the DAA? Has Mr. Jacobs divested himself of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Does Mr. Jacobs believe this is a conflict-of-interest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: I will finish up with a point on the cap. Fingal has advised in preplanning that on the infrastructure application, the cap applies to all passengers, including transit passengers, and to counting transfers twice. I do not want to speak for the entire committee but believe members, including me, are not satisfied that we have had a satisfactory explanation as to why the DAA takes an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: The witnesses mentioned that they have met members of the community, including the residents’ group of St. Margaret’s and the Ward. They were not met individually but as part of the environmental group and CLG meeting. These involve big meetings, with only one question asked. It was stated at our last hearing that airport representatives would meet the residents’ group...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: I raised Thornton Hall because it might slip between the cracks given how it is to be developed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. Jacobs, Mr. MacCarthy and Mr. McLean for attending and assisting on this important matter.

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Deputy Harkin and the Independent Group for bringing forward this motion. I have a speech prepared but I received an email from a principal in a school in my constituency at 10.05 a.m. which I would like to put on record because it relates to funding challenges for the provision of autism classes, which is within the broader scope of this motion. There is a school in my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will contact a school (details supplied) to clarify the status of two related applications for emergency works where a revised application for the urgent replacement of a floor and removal of asbestos was refused despite the fact that the inclusion of the asbestos removal was requested by her Department; if the original...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Sector Pensions (25 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 213. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will provide for a pension (details supplied) to be paid into an Irish bank account as no valid reason has been given as to the reason this should not be the case and there is existing precedence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26735/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (25 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 351. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current status for parents who secured a childcare place for their child, paid a large deposit and whose childcare circumstances change months prior to the child commencing in the crèche, who give ample notice of withdrawing their child from the provider’s list and are refused a refund of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (25 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 462. To ask the Minister for Health the training provided to parents of children with type 1 diabetes in Saint Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny on the use of insulin pumps; if there is a shortage in the provision of insulin pumps in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27074/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 464. To ask the Minister for Health when veoza will be made available on the drug payment scheme and the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27105/24]