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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Those are outrageous slurs. I am sure I have to give out to the Deputy about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Did Ryanair meet him in March as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I will make a couple of points. On the fact that 65% of Ryanair traffic is inbound, Mr. O'Leary is talking about increasing Ryanair aircraft at the Dublin base from 33 to 40. Ryanair's projections are showing more growth at the other five airports than in Dublin. It showed the Minister for Transport planned growth of 50%, from 20 million to 30 million passengers. Of these, 4.3 million...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: They are. I am an accountant by background and I would like to see figures. I know it will be a big figure but I would like to realise how big it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: All that pure cash coming into the country is foreign money coming to be spent here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I spoke at a committee in Brussels about the hard to decarbonise aviation and maritime sectors. It was exactly what Mr. O'Leary is saying. We had people from the centre of Europe all saying that we should ban short-haul flights, including people from France, Germany, Belgium and so on, and then all of a sudden we start speaking of Cyprus, Malta, northern Sweden, the Canary Islands and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We live in hope but the metro might arrive before that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Internal EU flights, is that right? Flights to Albania are not affected and now flights to the UK are not affected.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Even though it is a duty-free zone and is semi out of the EU when it suits.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: -----but everyone should do it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I will do my tongue-in-cheek bit now. Mr. O'Leary might be willing to invite us as committee members to see Ryanair's headquarters, as the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, did. I think a lot of members might be interested in visiting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: If Mr. O'Leary invites us, we can come - put it that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We can go to Morocco on a separate visit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I am sure we will pay our fair share. I do not want to let Mr. O'Leary go before asking about ATC. I do not know how we have managed to get this far without mentioning ATC at all. Where are we going with ATC in Europe? It has been very challenging for a lot of flights. We hope to get Eurocontrol into the committee some time after the summer. Is it getting better or worse? Is there a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Most of them are not landing in France at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Ryanair is affected by flights that would be landing in Beauvais or wherever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Is there any sign, from Mr. O'Leary's perspective, that it is willing to touch this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Possibly the oldest person in the room.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair (12 Jun 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Via Holyhead.