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Minister. The group has raised the issue of regional airports and how it might be able to access funding. There is a passenger cap to access that funding at the moment but we are considering that. Shannon Airport can stand on its own two feet. It is doing … Shannon and Cork airports are. The passenger growth at Cork Airport has been significant. I might come back to the Deputy on the passenger cap during my supplementary response. We have committed to working with stakeholders to remove the passenger cap at Dublin Airport. That commitment was included

were awarded to 15 operators. I now call for the awarding of 18 temporary licences, confined to ten passengers each, keeping the 180 passenger cap to ensure this season can be operated for the good of all concerned and on a one-season basis only. Full licences will … south Kerry and Iveragh is that we protect their livelihoods, protect our incomes, and protect their jobs by keeping Skellig Michael open to passenger landings for 2025 until a solution is found to the present impasse. This is the second time today that I have raised this hugely

west. It is not something I agree with, but we know that the Government is going to try to lift the passenger cap. It is a fact of life. We need to gain some additionality for regional airports. Will the Minister look at expanding the regional airports programme

support the airports in that regard. The Government is committed as well, in the programme for Government, to the lifting of the passenger cap at Dublin Airport. There has been a stay on that, as the Deputy knows, with the ECJ case. That stay is in place

have seen the chaos in Dublin Airport. This is not an anti-Dublin Airport statement at all. We welcome the lift on the passenger cap too, but the regional balance needs to be looked at. It is very unfair to have 86% of flights going

licences to get us over the impasse that is there at the moment. They would be confined to ten passengers each, keeping in line with the cap of 180, to ensure the season operates for the good of all concerned, on a one-season-only basis and with

Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Transport if he will report on the 32 million passenger cap at Dublin Airport; the measures he has taken to ensure planning conditions at State owned airports are complied with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24747/25