'No plan' for residents if Dublin Airport passenger cap is lifted

Oireachtas transport committee also hears that the passenger cap is 'a key guardrail to curb aviation fossil fuel pollution in Ireland'

Campaigners from Children’s Rights over Flights and Irish Doctors for the Environment outside the Dáil yesterday where they tore up a copy of a proposed bill that would allow the transport minister to abolish the Dublin Airport passenger cap. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews

There is "no plan" for residents around Dublin Airport if the existing passenger cap is lifted, an Oireachtas committee has been told.

The Oireachtas transport committee met to discuss new laws brought to Cabinet last month, which would end the existing restrictions at the capital's airport.