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Seanad: EU Regulations (Police Co-operation on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings): Motion (11 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...reducing the activity of migrant smuggling groups, of ensuring that Ireland is not seen as a soft touch and that ideally people realise this is not a place to send them. For every aircraft that lands in Dublin Airport and in any of our airports, the airlines know the nationality or suggested nationality of everybody on that aeroplane. Obviously, anybody who is a British national, an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Gerry Horkan: There is land acquisition and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I get that. We talked about the Galway ring road and all the rest of it. The eastern bypass would have been right beside me if it went ahead. I dealt with issues where land was sterilised for roads that did not go ahead and people could not even build house extensions. Some 30 years later, they are still not able to build house extensions. They would have been quite happy to build the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate (6 Dec 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...interested in the provision of night buses in the Dublin region but also in other areas that warrant such a service. We have an issue with Dublin Airport and the cap. A lot of that is caused by the land-based access to Dublin Airport. What is being done to get ever more operators whether it is Aircoach, Dublin Express, Dublin Bus or other operators to deliver more people and make more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Gerry Horkan: Regarding this third terminal on the western side, what are Mr. Jacobs's thoughts on that? I am not talking about the land ownership. Say the DAA owned all of that land, at the moment, would it be thinking about putting facilities over there? It is talking about having new stands in that area, and general aviation. I might touch on the cap with reference to Deputy Crowe's point. Surely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Gerry Horkan: It is in all our interests that people come to Ireland Inc., regardless of where they land but yes, we should be trying to spread it better than we do at the moment. My concern is that the board of DAA - and Mr. Jacobs is the chief executive who presenting to and dealing with the board - is really not looking beyond 40 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...that they came out of Dublin Airport and there were no taxis and the buses were all full. What is Mr. Jacobs doing with the public transport operators to get greater capacity from every part of Ireland? The DAA makes lots of money out of car parking but more people can go by bus. The cap is all about land-side access. This is the problem. What is Mr. Jacobs doing to solve it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...and so on. The big 32 million question was about getting into and out of the airport, as opposed to what happens once you go through the door of the building, let alone the difference between landside and airside. Mr. Jacobs is saying the DAA is going to do all this work to handle 40 million, but it is really on the land side that the DAA needs to improve capacity. How is it doing that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Gerry Horkan: Mr. Jacobs mentioned that he thought it would be tactically helpful to have the land the DAA does not have between the two runways. If the DAA owned that land today, what would it do with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)

Gerry Horkan: It is to the credit of Dublin Airport and its predecessors - Aer Rianta and so on - that the land was bought 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 years ago when people probably never envisaged Dublin Airport growing to what it is now. Did An Bord Pleanála ever rule on whether transit and transfer passengers should or should not be counted and whether they should be counted as zero, one or two passengers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...spoke about ramping up and how aviation has bounced back faster that others. I saw something on X that said that planes were holding over Longford because people were on breaks or people could not land at a ridiculous time. It may be totally untrue. Is it true?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Gerry Horkan: Is Mr. O'Neill talking about land acquisitions and compulsory purchase orders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion (14 Jun 2023)

Gerry Horkan: The DAA does long-term planning very well. The north runway lands were accumulated over many years and held, and held properly. I remember being a member of a regional authority at which people were paired to vote on the third runway, as they used to call it, back in 2006. Finally, it is being delivered but it has been on plans for years. The new tower was not a project of those present...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion (14 Jun 2023)

Gerry Horkan: Mr. Jacobs mentioned landing charges. He said he would like the charge to passengers of €7-something to be €9.99. Is that the only charge the DAA gets from the airline?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Gerry Horkan: ...presume Mr. Fitzpatrick does not have a view or understanding of this aspect. That development plan went in and the runway was approved in 2006 or 2007. It was a long time in the making, and the land was retained a long time before that as well. It just surprises me that this issue only seemed to appear on the first day of operations. All the witnesses have a great deal of aviation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Gerry Horkan: When there was a single or main runway, aeroplanes took off and landed in the same direction. There is no other way we could imagine them doing it. Is it the case with parallel runways in place that they both have to go the same way? Do they both go westerly or easterly or can we have one going one way and the other going the other way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Gerry Horkan: It tends to be that the aircraft tend to come in over the sea when landing, and they go east-west and they take off that way as well. Is that historical? I can understand why they come in east-west because they are primarily flying in from Europe. That is the vast bulk, although there are US ones as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Gerry Horkan: The land bridge is diminished.