Written answers

Monday, 9 September 2024

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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227.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total quality of extra CO2 emissions each year caused by journeys being taken by people who live closer to other airports, being forced to travel to Dublin Airport to take a flight.[34589/24]

Photo of Eamon RyanEamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I am advised that my Department is not in a position to provide the emissions associated specifically with people, who live closer to other airports, travelling to Dublin airport. While certain data exists to analyse transport emissions across certain specific use cases, this cannot be done to the level of granularity requested here.

The Department does not hold specific data on where the journeys of passengers transiting Dublin airport originate from or the reason they chose to travel to Dublin. Nor does it have any specific data on the proportion of car journeys taken for this purpose that are via e.g. electric vehicles. Such information would be required to calculate the figure the Deputy has requested.

Passengers who decide to travel to Dublin Airport are encouraged to travel sustainably wherever possible.

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