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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: 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?

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. That will get us going next week. We will draw the meeting to a close at this point, unless Deputy Smith has another question.

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 could probably talk for another couple of hours but I think we have covered many points in this discussion. I thank the witnesses for coming in. It is important that we hear from Ryanair as the biggest airline operating at Dublin Airport. Obviously, we all know this fact. It is a significant part of the airport. It is the same with Aer Lingus, which is not as big as Ryanair but 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: Is it? Okay. Effectively, if passengers are flying on Buzz, Air Malta or Lauder, although that is a slightly different case because it uses the A320, it is exactly the same really, is it 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)

Gerry Horkan: It is exactly the same inside and the same service and everything. They are all Ryanair codes. The only difference is that there are slightly different uniforms and, possibly, slightly different paint on the outside of the aircraft.

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 again thank the witnesses for what Ryanair does for Irish people and also for Irish tourists and people coming to Ireland. The airline makes an enormous contribution. I know that people in Poland, Italy, Spain, Portugal and all these other countries also benefit from Ryanair's services. We sometimes forget how big the airline is. It is a little like the old days when Smurfit was much...

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: A massive amount of stuff is happening, therefore, that we do not see an awful lot of-----

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 unless we are on the way on the runway. The committee members visited Seville last year and we could see that Ryanair was the biggest airline in that airport.

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: That is 100% correct. I thank Mr. O'Leary and all his colleagues for being here and for giving up their time. We got a lot of insights from this discussion and we will take up the issues that arose with the representatives of the DAA next week and, indeed, with the Minister, Deputy Ryan, in the weeks after. I thank the witnesses.