James Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise a matter of local and national importance. Early this morning I attended a detailed briefing at Dublin Airport with the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA. Dublin Airport, as Senators will know, is a key national asset that employs approximately 20,000 people in over 100 companies. For each of the 20,000 jobs another nine jobs have been created indirectly. In total, there are nearly 200,000 people employed around north Dublin and in surrounding counties.

The airport has been a success story under the Fine Gael-led Governments as passenger numbers grew from 18 million in 2010 to approximately 32 million in 2019.