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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The enactment of Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill has put huge pressure on counties in the Border area. It has added to fear and anxiety for the migrant community. Many in Britain are seeing that migrating to Northern Ireland may now be their best option. This has manifested itself in many pressures here in the South. Perhaps one manifestation of the problems we have seen in the past 48 hours...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [24765/24]

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)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome our guests from Ryanair and congratulate them on the onward and upward growth of their company. I want to home in on just a few points. First, regarding the planning cap, we are aware of other European countries where there are environmental noise output caps. Is the planning cap on passenger numbers unique to Ireland? Has Ryanair encountered this in any other countries? Has 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)

Cathal Crowe: There is merit to the two legislative proposals the representatives are suggesting. I am also conscious that the last time the Dublin Airport Authority was before the committee it had been lodging planning that week. It then advised us that it could take a minimum of two years for that to go through the whole process. This is because there is inevitably going to be an appeal to An Bord...

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)

Cathal Crowe: Is it therefore the case that, with inaction, Ryanair fears that it will be subjected to this cap for four years?

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)

Cathal Crowe: Sure. I refer to the passengers and those who wish to use the service.

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)

Cathal Crowe: On the last day when Dublin Airport Authority was before the committee I was quite critical of its approach. I feel - and I am sure the representatives will disagree with me - that it has gotten the ahead of the Government on this. This is because a national aviation strategy policy review is due to happen this year. It came in with planning permission. It is a semi-State. It has...

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)

Cathal Crowe: Is it not somewhat absurd that we need to fully expand Dublin in order to take in more passengers, yet without putting an extra brick or piece of steel or glass in place in Shannon, Shannon could double its passenger count? It is already configured for that. Is that not wasteful and unsustainable? Could Ryanair play a role in providing new routes in and out of Shannon?

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)

Cathal Crowe: My next question is on a matter that we discussed before the meeting. Ryanair has some fabulous route offerings to Spain, but its German market seems lacking. That market is well served out of Dublin but not Shannon. When we repeatedly look at the tourism figures for the west, though, German tourists are travelling there for hiking, angling and spending slow-moving holidays on the Wild...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (12 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider amending the rules to allow the issuing of passports of shorter durations in view of some extenuating circumstances (details supplied). [25621/24]

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)

Cathal Crowe: When I look at the Ryanair route map, I see that its reach into Europe is extending. Some of its routes are up to four and a half or five hours long. Surely it is now time for Ryanair to start considering transatlantic routes. It had a plan once but scrapped it. Maybe such routes are not on the horizon, but some airports in upstate New York offer cheap landing fees that would be...

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)

Cathal Crowe: Of course, the Minister should reply. Ryanair needs a response. That submission cannot just be left hanging. Respectfully, does part of Ryanair’s problem today not stem from it changing its business model? In Belgium, for example, Ryanair did not always fly into its capital of Brussels. When it used to fly into Charleroi, the airport was called Brussels South Charleroi 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)

Cathal Crowe: Surely the model of arriving in the west and day tripping to the east could be explored. It would be cheap.

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)

Cathal Crowe: Surely there are not 200 people from Faro visiting Knock.

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)

Cathal Crowe: They are people returning from holidays.

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)

Cathal Crowe: The return flight is usually people returning home from that trip. It is not people from the south of Portugal deciding they will have a lovely holiday in Mayo for the summer. Much as we would like them to, that is not always the case. The same 120 people who go on a sun holiday come back. While one person is flying out on a Friday, another is flying back. Even on a weekly basis, moving...

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)

Cathal Crowe: So, some people might not get home if this cap is not lifted.

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)

Cathal Crowe: It is removable, but it probably would not be instantaneous. I thank Mr. O’Leary for his time. I may contribute again 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)

Cathal Crowe: To come in on a few points from earlier, we mentioned the national aviation policy that is coming up for review. It is grossly outdated. Beyond the passenger cap, because I think we have that issue well covered, what would be Mr. O'Leary's key requests? I am sure he will be making a submission to the Minister around the time of the review and I am just wondering, getting ahead of that...