Irish Examiner
Gordon Deegan
07 May 2025
Planning delays at Dublin Airport have added "tens of millions" to build costs, DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs has stated.
Mr Jacobs said that delayed or overturned planning decisions for proposals for Dublin Airport “waste time and have so far added tens of millions of euro in unnecessary build costs”. In a LinkedIn post on Wednesday, Mr Jacobs said that in relation to one Dublin Airport project, the expanded US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities, “the refusal by Fingal County Council, and the need to appeal to An Bord Pleanala, has cost us two years and added €5m in extra costs, delaying other projects”.
Mr Jacobs’s comments follow An Bord Pleanala on Tuesday giving the green light for the expansion of the US Customs Pre-Clearance and Border Protection facility, overturning a planning refusal by Fingal Co Council issued in July 2023. The council had refused planning permission after finding that the proposal would be premature pending a detailed road network to serve the area.
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