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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: Two members of the committee have just been elected to the European Parliament, so there will be two people to talk to.
- 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 long enough around that I did a project on Ryanair when I was in school in 1988, when it was a very small little airline. It is amazing to see what it has transformed into. There was also the deregulation of airlines. In the past, airlines could only fly from their home country to other countries and could never open a base in any other country. Aer Lingus could operate from Ireland,...
- 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 just need to implement 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 thank Mr. O'Leary. I will let Deputy O'Connor in because he has not been in. I will then allow Senator Craughwell back in.
- 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 are straying off the topic of the Dublin Airport cap-----
- 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: Just to point out that the last ferry from Dún Laoghaire was in 2015, and it is fair to say that Ryanair was probably the cause of its demise. When you could get a plane to Liverpool for €9.99, why would you go to Holyhead? I am sure we will get Mr. George Lee to do a programme from Dublin Port at some stage.
- 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: At 4.30 a.m.?
- 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: It is the same in politics.
- 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: Could cargo go there?
- 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: Sorry, Senator Craughwell, I want to let in the next speaker.
- 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: No. Some members need to leave for a vote. Deputy Smith wants to speak. I will let Senator Craughwell back in later.
- 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 do not know whether Mr. O'Leary is going in Deputy Smith's direction or the other way around.
- 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 contribute briefly and then we will let the witnesses go. The Minister with responsibility for tourism is also from the Green Party. Has Ryanair had any contact with her in regard to not being able to bring in these 65% of inbound passengers because the planes cannot land due to not being able to get the slots and the impact of the cap? Has the airline had any engagement with her?
- 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 in the room next door at the moment, but anyway.
- 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: Yes-----
- 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: In one of the documents the airline sent to us, there was one point about the Dublin Airport subsidy scheme or something like that. It was mentioned that there was some kind of scheme that is supposed to incentivise companies to bring new aircraft on stream. Ryanair, however, is quite critical of that scheme. Why?
- 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 do not know the scheme, so perhaps it could be explained to us.
- 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: None of these newer aircraft is based in Dublin now.
- 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: As a committee, we visited Amsterdam and Rotterdam airports and we went with Ryanair on one of the next-generation aircraft. I did not realise this situation existed. Presumably, some of these aircraft are still coming in from other bases. Is that correct?
- 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: Does Mr. O'Leary have any questions he would like the committee to put to Kenny Jacobs next week, other than what the €250 million tunnel is for?