Results 481-500 of 10,460 for speaker:Gerry Horkan
- 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 the cap at the moment just reduce the frequency and capacity of Ryanair's existing routes or are there are cities that Dublin Airport is missing out on? Are there cities Ryanair would like to fly to but does not because of the 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: Is Dublin Ryanair's second or third biggest base?
- 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 all of the witnesses for giving up so much of their time today. We are not finished yet. I might come back in but I want to let other members who have not had a chance to come in to do so. I again thank them for what Ryanair is doing not just for inbound tourism, but for all of us who regularly use Ryanair to go other places. I call Senator Craughwell, who I am sure will talk...
- 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 said I thought you might.
- 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: The Deputy will have his say in a minute.
- 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: Do not worry about that. I will let the Deputy back in again. I should have let Deputy Farrell in the first time, but I will let him in first on this second round of questions if he does want to come 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: I hope I was not one of them but perhaps I was.
- 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: Okay. Would Mr. Kealy like to contribute?
- 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: Deputy Farrell is saying that at the moment this proposed infrastructure does not meet the criteria and Mr. Kealy is saying that it does or it should.
- 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: Currently, it does not. Okay.
- 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: Now, if Deputy Farrell is finished, I call Deputy Crowe.
- 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.