Gillian Toole (Meath East, Independent)
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263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific mechanisms through which the Secretary General, and other senior Department officials, exercise oversight of Dublin Airport Authority, regarding its operational and developmental obligations at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23070/25]

Gillian Toole (Meath East, Independent)
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264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a list of departmental personnel with responsibility for the oversight of Dublin Airport operations, to include planning compliance, environmental impact, public accountability, along with details of their relevant experience and qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23071/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 263 and 264 together.

daa is a commercial State body and has statutory responsibility to operate, manage and develop Dublin Airport under the State Airports Act 2004. The Chairperson and Board are responsible to me as Minister, for the operation and proper functioning of daa.

Corporate governance oversight of daa by my Department is exercised in line with the Company’s governing legislation and the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies 2016. The Code provides a framework for the application of best practice in corporate governance across commercial and non-commercial State bodies. The Code covers the internal practices of State bodies and their external relations with Government, the relevant Minister under whose aegis they fall, the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform and their respective parent Departments. All commercial agencies under the aegis of my Department, including daa, are designated to NewERA under the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2014 for financial and commercial advice.?

In addition, Dublin Airport, like all airports, operates in a heavily regulated environment and in this regard is overseen by a number of independent regulators to ensure their compliance with domestic, European and international law.

Finally, planning matters, including compliance and enforcement, are a matter for the relevant independent planning authority which in the case of Dublin airport is Fingal County Council.