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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Jun 2024)

Alan Farrell: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 14 February 2024, if she will confirm when this review will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26661/24]

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

Alan Farrell: I thank the witnesses for appearing before us. I have flown out of Cork a few times. It is a lovely little airport. I could not believe how quickly I got through it in both directions the couple of times I visited. I compliment Mr. MacCarthy. Not to be critical of Dublin, but Dublin has vastly improved on what it was a number of decades ago. My first flight out of Dublin on my own was...

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

Alan Farrell: Exactly due west, straight out.

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

Alan Farrell: When we were reviewing what was happening from August 2022 on, many people asked why the DAA had insulated all of those homes if the predominant flight path was not going to be over them. We are 22 months on and, by Mr. Jacobs’s own reckoning, 660 homes have not been insulated but are likely to require insulation, that is, they are on the flight path and near the airfield. Why are we...

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

Alan Farrell: With respect, if there is nothing stopping the DAA, why is it not insulating houses?

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

Alan Farrell: I want the DAA to be a “good neighbour”. Mr. Jacobs has said that in my presence a number of times. The DAA does not need anyone to tell it that it needs to insulate 660 homes, given that Mr. Jacobs has said so himself. What I am about to say does not require an answer - please, get on with it.

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

Alan Farrell: I thank Mr. Jacobs. If there is a second round of questions, we might explore that matter a little more. When Deputy Crowe asked whether the DAA was in breach of any other planning conditions, Mr. Jacobs said, “No”. Would he like to revisit that answer?

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

Alan Farrell: The planning authority, Fingal County Council, issued an enforcement notice saying that the night-time cap had been breached. Is that not a breach?

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

Alan Farrell: The DAA is before the courts in a few days, on 24 June.

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

Alan Farrell: Mr. Jacobs will understand that we are not standing on the head of a pin; the pin is over there. The DAA has been found by a planning authority to have breached a planning condition associated with its operations. It is a question in law and the DAA is entitled to challenge it and it may be vindicated. However, in the interim, the DAA is in breach of one of its planning conditions,...

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

Alan Farrell: Mr. Jacobs's opinion is important, but in the context of the planning authority making a decision, that is a fact. The DAA does not get to play with the facts. It can challenge it and if it gets Mr. Justice Humphreys to make a decision to vindicate its position then Mr. Jacobs can answer that question with absolute confidence.

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

Alan Farrell: Yes, by the Judiciary, not by-----

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

Alan Farrell: Yes, but in the interim, the DAA is still in breach of the enforcement.

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

Alan Farrell: Again, I state it is not a matter of Mr. Jacobs's opinion. It is a fact that the planning authority, Fingal County Council, has found the DAA to be in breach. It is not a question of whether the DAA is or is not, the Judiciary can make its decision later, but today, the DAA is in breach of a planning condition. I want to address very briefly the fact that on a number of occasions, before...

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

Alan Farrell: I am happy to hear that. My question relates to timing. The new runway has been in operation for 22 months. It is a little bit of an issue if the DAA is saying that it will take another six months, or thereabouts, to get to a point where another potential flight path is identified - or not - that reduces the number of people being overflown. If a third-party contractor is being used,...

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

Alan Farrell: Sorry, forgive me. My question is: can this contractor that has been hired not speed up the process to bring a proposal to the DAA for consideration?

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

Alan Farrell: I thank Mr. Jacobs. I will rattle off three quick questions. The DAA's projection is already 6% above the profile from 2023. I find it very hard to understand how the DAA will be able to credibly manage the 32 million passengers. I respect the fact that is trying, but it is already 6% over-profile. Will the IAA ruling regarding the winter schedule mitigate that, notwithstanding anything...

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

Alan Farrell: That was Mr. O'Leary's charge.

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

Alan Farrell: Mr. Jacobs, it is not an opinion. It is not something that the DAA can challenge. Deputy Crowe's question was answered inappropriately and that is a fact.

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

Alan Farrell: I wish to ask Mr. McLean about the noise mitigation berm. I wrote probably 18 months ago. I think there is one in the Netherlands that is made up of a series of undulating berms. They are really precise and mathematically worked out. As a result, they break up sound waves. They have proven to be extremely successful compared with one large berm or something like that, which blocks the...