Irish Independent
Sarah O'Mahony
29 April 2025
Fingal County Council has accused the operators of Dublin Airport of acting inappropriately in relation to their application to increase the 32 million passenger cap.
In a statement issued this evening, the council said the Dublin Airport Authority’s (DAA) action “raised serious concerns about procedural integrity" and "risks undermining confidence in the fairness of the planning process".
Earlier this month, Fingal issued a request for further information following the most recent application by the DAA to increase the airport’s passenger cap to 36 million.
The council said that the request was required “after a number of substantive concerns and inconsistencies were identified… including - but not limited to - the applicant’s variable approach to passenger counting methodologies”.
It said it received a letter from the DAA objecting to the council’s request for further information and described the approach taken in that letter “as inappropriate and outside the bounds of the statutory planning process”.
