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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)

Alan Farrell: I wish Mr. O’Leary and the other witnesses a good afternoon and thank them for appearing before us. I thank Mr. O'Leary for his usual enigmatic appearance before the committee. I compliment him on the success of his business and there is no doubt we have a lot to be grateful with regard to what Ryanair has done for the airline market in Ireland over the past number of decades. I do...

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)

Alan Farrell: Okay. Were the aircraft in service last summer?

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)

Alan Farrell: They are not lost; they are just forgone.

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)

Alan Farrell: Mr. O'Leary mentioned the 514,000 seats he has written to the Minister about. Will Mr. O'Leary inform the committee his understanding of the outline of the regulatory arrangement the Minister presides over, when he is looking to expand with new slots and destinations? What is the process? In a scenario where there was no cap, how would Ryanair go about applying for those?

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)

Alan Farrell: Is it because of the IAA regulations?

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)

Alan Farrell: No, the Minister cannot instruct the IAA in that way. It is slightly more nuanced than that but I understand the point Mr. O'Leary is making. I asked a question about Mr. O'Leary's understanding of how it works because he will understand - and I am in politics for 20 years as of yesterday - that writing to the Minister is a political move rather than a regulatory move. It sounds great at...

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)

Alan Farrell: I think what the IAA is trying to do, and it can come here and tell us itself, my understanding is it is trying to assist or instruct the airport authority to avoid doing what it did in 2023. Everybody in this room will probably accept the cap was breached. The authority is under investigation for this but it breached the cap and has already said in writing it will breach the cap during...

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)

Alan Farrell: I do not think he does. It would probably be best for us to get some legal people to sit where the witnesses are sitting and we can ask them that question. I invite Mr. O'Leary to write to me and I will put his questions to them directly, but I do not think what he says is the case. I thank him and the other witnesses.

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)

Alan Farrell: The only thing I really wish to say is that this has been a very informative conversation but the number of uninformed statements being made is extraordinary. I refer to members and witnesses in respect of topics like public transport, accessibility in Swords, the planning application, the regulatory systems being operated in the background-----

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)

Alan Farrell: -----what is in the planning application that is before the county council and what is not, what is before ANCA, that body's decision and what is before the courts. I find it extraordinary. I have only been appointed to this committee for a few weeks, but I do find it extraordinary that we are having this conversation in this context. I am baffled that we are here talking about stuff we...

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)

Alan Farrell: We are talking about two different things.

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)

Alan Farrell: We really are.

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)

Alan Farrell: Again, Leas-Chathaoirleach, I will just point out, with respect, that Mr. O'Leary has talked about these things on three separate occasions. I did not address them once. I expressed my opinion. It was not a question. It is on the record where Mr. O'Leary stands and where I stand.

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)

Alan Farrell: I do not think 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)

Alan Farrell: Yes, but this is not strategic infrastructure.

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)

Alan Farrell: I am not doubting it, but I am saying that it is not strategic infrastructure, so this cannot be done.

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)

Alan Farrell: I agree it should, but it does not.

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)

Alan Farrell: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Events (30 May 2024)

Alan Farrell: 21. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on her Department’s engagement with national governing bodies with regard to ‘free-to-air’ sporting events; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23911/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (30 May 2024)

Alan Farrell: 51. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on her Department’s efforts to support tourism sites in north County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23910/24]