Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the DAA, in conjunction with Cork Airport authorities, to provide a flight connection between Cork and Dublin airports on a daily basis. [6510/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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​Under the EU single aviation market rules, any EU airline is free to provide a service between Dublin and Cork, without the necessity for any further regulatory approvals.

Any proposal, therefore, to provide such a service would be purely a commercial matter for the airline concerned.  In addition, any route incentive schemes that may be available from the airport authority would be a day to day matter for daa, which also operates to a fully commercial mandate. I have no function in relation to such matters.