Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-12-13
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Mary Lou McDonald (SF), Dublin Central

Deputy Mattie McGrath has shared with us that he would want to be defrosted.
When people again see scenes of delay and cancellations in Dublin Airport there is a real concern over the ongoing lack of preparedness. I accept that the Dublin Airport Authority and the airlines have a case to answer here, but ultimately public confidence will be built only if there is a sense that the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, actually has a plan. I accept that others have met and made contingency arrangements during a snap of very hard cold weather. This close to Christmas, with so many people coming home, we need public reassurance that the Minister is fully engaged. I ask the Taoiseach to give more detail of that. He said there was a meeting with the Dublin Airport Authority. What was the upshot of that? Dublin Airport is not the only airport on the island, but it is the key hub airport.
For a long time, some local residents have sought a meeting with the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, in respect of a change to flight patterns outside of the planning permission that had been granted. If he is, as the Taoiseach claims, wide awake, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, could he do these residents the good grace of meeting them?

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Sitting date: 2022-12-13