Council pushes back on Dublin Airport’s attempt to increase passenger cap to 36m

The environmental impact assessment is necessary, Fingal said, as the proposed Dublin Airport development 'is likely to have significant effects on the environment'. File picture

A Dublin local authority has pushed back on Dublin Airport’s attempt to increase its passenger cap to 36m people, saying it requires further information, a decision likely to significantly delay the application.

Fingal County Council has written to the airport’s administrator Daa to say that the proposed raising of the cap from its current level of 32m would require an environmental impact assessment and details of how additional traffic to the airport’s terminals would be accommodated, along with details of an updated capacity assessment to demonstrate that the airport can accommodate the higher passenger number.