Transport chief casts doubt on bid to raise Dublin Airport passenger cap

The cap at Dublin Airport has been in place since 2007.

One of the country’s most senior civil servants has cast doubt on efforts by the Government to quickly raise Dublin Airport’s 32m person passenger cap, describing them as “unrealistic”.

Secretary general at the Department of Transport Ken Spratt informed his colleagues in late March of a phonecall he had received from the chair of DAA — the airport’s operating body — Basil Geoghegan, in which Mr Spratt described media reports that the Government was set to raise the cap as being “inaccurate”.