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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Never. Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Deputy Matthews. I call Deputy Smith.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Deputy Farrell wishes to come in for a few minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Deputy Farrell was not here at the start of the meeting. I made it clear to everyone, and committee members will know this, that this meeting was all about the cap and how to deal with that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: That is okay. I just want to make sure the Deputy knows that we specifically did not agree to talk about the north runway or anything to do with the north runway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: That is fine. I just needed to make the Deputy aware of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: That is again the north runway stuff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: None of us is allowed to make charges, so the Deputy should be careful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Would the Deputy like to let Mr. Jacobs back in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I will help Deputy Farrell and confirm that the DAA has never sought clarity from Fingal County Council as to whether that is okay with them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I will come in here. I am not sure if anyone has asked this question and I have been here through the entire meeting as, to be fair, has Deputy Smith. How many transfer passengers are expected to go through Dublin in 2023? If it is 3 million, are we out by 3 million? Is it 1 million or 7 million? What is the number of transfer passengers going through the airport, whether you count them...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Transfer journeys if you want to call them that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I heard stories before, which are maybe anecdotal, that 40% of transatlantic traffic was transit traffic. I thought that would have been more than 1 million. Maybe it is not, because Mr. Jacobs also told us it is one of the biggest airports in Europe for transatlantic traffic. Will he come back to us with how many transfer journeys are going through, whether or not we count them once,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I will certainly put it on the work programme for the committee to decide what we do. I do not do things on my own, but I am certainly happy to put it to the committee to agree that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I acknowledge that Mr. Jacobs has not always been in the role he is in now and cannot possibly know everything that happened in the context of the DAA before he got there. Obviously, there is a ruling from An Bord Pleanála about whether things are in and out. I think it was not willing to allow the DAA to disregard transfer passengers, if I am correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: If there was no cap, the airport could accommodate 40 million passengers today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: We are not suggesting otherwise. We are not making charges about anybody. We would all expect - as I am sure Mr. Jacobs as a citizen would - everyone, but particularly agencies of the State, to comply with planning law, which of course the DAA is doing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: To conclude, I thank Mr. Jacobs for being here for as long as he has. I thank him for his comprehensive opening presentation. There is a lot of positivity here. Politicians tend to be very happy with the positive and then focus on the bits we are not positive about. The fact that we are not talking about conveyor belts, baggage handling, suitcases lost in transit and screening times of an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: We want them to be successful, but within the confines of the law. We also want the DAA to be a good neighbour-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Gerry Horkan: -----to those people who may feel it is not being a good neighbour. If that can be resolved between now and our next engagement, it would be a positive and a win-win for everybody. I thank everyone for coming to the meeting. I thank Deputies Alan Farrell and Duncan Smith for attending. They have been here since the start, keeping me company if nothing else. I thank them for that. I...