THE DUBLIN Airport Authority (DAA) yesterday unveiled a €4 billion plan to build a new business district in the capital over the next 20 years that would employ up to 30,000 people. CIARÁN HANCOCK , Business Affairs Correspondent reports
Called Dublin Airport City, it is to be situated on 350 acres of land to the east of the existing airport complex that is not needed for airport activities. The ambitious scheme - designed by international architects HOK - envisages 600,000sq metres of office space and 40,000sq metres of retail, hotel and conference facilities.
This would make it roughly one-third the size of the London Docklands. The plan includes a 16-storey tower that could attract objections from locals and conservation groups. "It is reasonable to assume that there will be planning issues," the airport authority's chairman Gary McGann said after yesterday's launch.
Mr McGann said the plan is to cluster industries close to the airport, offering them ease of access to air travel, while only being six miles from the city centre.
No industries have been identified at this stage, although soundings had been taken with the IDA. The area was likely to prove attractive to multinationals, particularly those looking to establish head office functions in Europe, Mr McGann added.
The airport authority said the jobs in the area would be of "high quality".
IDA chief executive Barry O'Leary welcomed the plan. "This project is a vote of confidence in Dublin's future as a major centre for international commerce, increasing choice in the range and quality of property options available to companies considering locating in this region."
Speaking at the launch, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern described the plan as an "exciting new development" for the country. "It's important to plan ahead and put in train developments for the next stage of economic growth in this country," he said. The airport authority said the new "economic zone" would contribute in the region of €1 billion a year to the national economy and that the venture would be independently funded.
It is understood that the airport manager could seek investment from the National Pension Reserve Fund, which is managed for the State by the NTMA.
DAA chief executive Declan Collier stressed that the development would be "entirely ringfenced" from the DAA's €2 billion overhaul of its airport facilities, which includes a second terminal building.
Mr Collier said the new district would be built in five-year phases. The DAA will probably seek planning permission for the first phase later this year. Construction is likely to begin in 2010 with the first tenants moving in within two or three years.
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Saturday, 26 April 2008
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Court told of 'conspiracy' by airport authority and developer over land
THREE WOMEN who previously owned a tract of land beside Dublin airport, which was rezoned in the 1990s, have alleged before the High Court that there was a conspiracy between the Dublin Airport Authority and developers Dunloe Ewart plc to prevent their family getting planning permission for the property.
Anne Donegan, Lucy Donegan and Anne O'Malley had initiated proceedings against the Minister for Transport, Aer Rianta (now the Dublin Airport Authority) and Dunloe Ewart but, in a judgment on a preliminary issue in the case yesterday, Mr Justice Brian McGovern granted an application on behalf of the Minister to have the case against him struck out.
The case will now proceed against Aer Rianta and Dunloe Ewart.
The women had claimed misrepresentations were made by the Minister and Aer Rianta during objections to the applications for planning permission. The women claim the alleged misrepresentations were made between 1990 and 1995 when they, or their predecessors in title, sought to develop a 32.5 hectare (80 acre) piece of land at Harristown, beside the airport, for commercial purposes.
The land was rezoned in 1993 by the then Dublin County Council for development of aviation-related warehousing. The land was owned at the time by brothers John and Frank Donegan.
Mr Justice McGovern said the three women made allegations of conspiracy by Aer Rianta and Dunloe but no such allegation was made against the Minister.
The judge noted the women claimed that, because they believed the airport authority and Dunloe would continue objecting to their planning applications, there was no real prospect of the lands being developed and they sold the lands to Monaer Ltd.
The women alleged that Aer Rianta and Dunloe later entered into a joint venture to develop part of the lands for warehousing, and planning permission for this was granted, the judge said.
He said the women claimed they were deliberately misled by the Minister for Transport and Aer Rianta in the objections to the permission, principally in relation to the proper planning and development of the airport, the location of the lands to runways and safety considerations related to the operation of the airport.
The women claimed those policy objections, made during planning applications by them or their predecessors, were bogus and/or non-existent, and they claim to have suffered loss as a result.
The Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 was clear and unambiguous that any claim arising should lie against Aer Rianta and not the Minister, the judge said.
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Anne Donegan, Lucy Donegan and Anne O'Malley had initiated proceedings against the Minister for Transport, Aer Rianta (now the Dublin Airport Authority) and Dunloe Ewart but, in a judgment on a preliminary issue in the case yesterday, Mr Justice Brian McGovern granted an application on behalf of the Minister to have the case against him struck out.
The case will now proceed against Aer Rianta and Dunloe Ewart.
The women had claimed misrepresentations were made by the Minister and Aer Rianta during objections to the applications for planning permission. The women claim the alleged misrepresentations were made between 1990 and 1995 when they, or their predecessors in title, sought to develop a 32.5 hectare (80 acre) piece of land at Harristown, beside the airport, for commercial purposes.
The land was rezoned in 1993 by the then Dublin County Council for development of aviation-related warehousing. The land was owned at the time by brothers John and Frank Donegan.
Mr Justice McGovern said the three women made allegations of conspiracy by Aer Rianta and Dunloe but no such allegation was made against the Minister.
The judge noted the women claimed that, because they believed the airport authority and Dunloe would continue objecting to their planning applications, there was no real prospect of the lands being developed and they sold the lands to Monaer Ltd.
The women alleged that Aer Rianta and Dunloe later entered into a joint venture to develop part of the lands for warehousing, and planning permission for this was granted, the judge said.
He said the women claimed they were deliberately misled by the Minister for Transport and Aer Rianta in the objections to the permission, principally in relation to the proper planning and development of the airport, the location of the lands to runways and safety considerations related to the operation of the airport.
The women claimed those policy objections, made during planning applications by them or their predecessors, were bogus and/or non-existent, and they claim to have suffered loss as a result.
The Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act 1998 was clear and unambiguous that any claim arising should lie against Aer Rianta and not the Minister, the judge said.
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Monday, 25 February 2008
Settlement with DAA precludes Ryanair from challenging plans for Terminal 2
Ryanair Ltd -v- An Bord Pleanála
HIGH COURT
Judgment was given by Mr Justice Clarke on January 11th, 2008.
JUDGMENT
Ryanair are prevented by the terms of a settlement of previous proceedings with the Dublin Airport Authority from challenging the granting of permission by An Bord Pleanála for Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport, and so their proceedings against the board should be dismissed.
BACKGROUND
The case concerned a long-running dispute between Ryanair and the Dublin Airport Authority about a second terminal at Dublin airport. An Bord Pleanála had granted planning permission for the terminal, and Ryanair wished to challenge that decision. The DAA sought to have such proceedings struck out on the grounds that Ryanair was precluded from bringing them under an agreement entered into arising out of previous proceedings. The issue was whether or not the proceedings now being brought by Ryanair fell under the terms of that agreement. An Bord Pleanála did not participate in the proceedings.
The settlement referred to resulted from proceedings brought in 2005 by Ryanair against the Taoiseach, the Minister for Transport, the DAA and the Attorney General, following a Government decision that a second terminal should be commissioned and built by the DAA. These arose out of a contention made by Ryanair that the costs associated with the operation of Dublin airport are too great.
In connection with the proposed second terminal, it contended that it would be built on too great a scale and to too high a standard, thus generating higher operating costs which would be passed on through operating airlines to their customers. Ryanair had its own alternative proposals for a second terminal.
Following the Government decision, the DAA appointed consultants Pascall and Watson to review previous planning work on a second terminal, including consulting with the main home-based carriers. The consultants made a series of recommendations in relation to the location, operation and capacity of the proposed new terminal, and their report was accepted by the DAA, which in September announced a plan for a 50,000 square metre passenger terminal, costing between €170 million and €200 million.
The settlement of the 2005 proceedings took place in March 2006, and Ryanair withdrew their challenge to the validity of the Government decision. Under the terms of the settlement, "Ryanair confirms and agrees with the Defendants not to bring any further challenges against or arising out of or connected with the Government's decision of the 18th May 2005 concerning T2 or in respect of any implementation in whole or in part of the Medium-Term Masterplan for infrastructural facilities prepared by Pascall and Watson in September 2005 (including the plan for the new Terminal and associated pier facilities) (Pier E) which the DAA may decide to effect."
A letter from the DAA's solicitors accepted this agreement, seeking confirmation that there were "no further terms or collateral agreements". This was agreed.
Mr Justice Clarke said that he had to decide whether those terms of settlement precluded the challenge which Ryanair now sought to bring to the decision of An Bord Pleanála. He had to consider the construction of agreements, the application of this construction to the facts of this case, and whether the proposed terminal was something entirely different from what had been proposed in 2005, which would mean it fell outside the terms of the agreement.
DECISION
He dealt first with the principles of construction of agreements, which he said had to start with what the document actually stated. The context in which it was entered into could only be used as an aid to construction.
The agreement prevents Ryanair from bringing any challenge "arising out of or connected with" the Government's decision on Terminal Two (T2), which required it to be built by the DAA by 2009. Given that this deadline required planning permission to be obtained quickly, "it seems to me clear, therefore, that a challenge to a planning application for a second terminal is a challenge 'arising out of or connected with' the Government's decision," he said.
"I am, therefore, satisfied that any challenge to a planning application for a second terminal in Dublin airport is precluded by the first part of para. 2 of the settlement agreement."
However, in case he was wrong in that, Mr Justice Clarke went on to consider whether the challenge would also be precluded by the second part of that paragraph, which referred to "the implementation of the Medium-Term Masterplan for infrastructural facilities prepared by Pascall and Watson in September 2005".
This required examining whether or not the present proposals were in fact an implementation of the "Masterplan". The Pascall and Watson plan was quite general, he said. Despite this, Ryanair had signed up to a settlement containing it, and must therefore be bound by its terms, even if the DAA present proposals were somewhat larger than it anticipated.
"It difficult to avoid the conclusion that if Ryanair wished to free itself from being precluded from challenging a T2 proposal which was larger or more costly than what it believed it was signing up to, it should have insisted specific terms being included in the settlement agreement," he said.
The only way it could challenge the proposal was if what was proposed was so different from the parameters of the Pascall and Watson plan as to be something entirely different.
This was not the case, and the consultants' plan specifically suggested that it might "be prudent to oversize the initial build" to allow for later expansion.
Ryanair had also argued that, by permitting it to make observations to the planning authorities, the DAA had not sought implementation of the prohibition on a "challenge" to the development, so it was now estopped from seeking to have the present challenge dismissed.
Mr Justice Clarke said he was inclined to the view that a person making observations in the course of a planning application could not be regarded as challenging the proposed development.
He did not think, therefore, that the DAA was precluded from seeking the dismissal of Ryanair's challenge to An Bord Pleanála's decision, and, for the reasons he outlined earlier, he was satisfied that its proceedings should be dismissed.The full text of the judgment is available on www.courts.ie
Solicitors: A & L Goodbody, Dublin (for the plaintiff); Chief State Solicitor (for the defendant)
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HIGH COURT
Judgment was given by Mr Justice Clarke on January 11th, 2008.
JUDGMENT
Ryanair are prevented by the terms of a settlement of previous proceedings with the Dublin Airport Authority from challenging the granting of permission by An Bord Pleanála for Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport, and so their proceedings against the board should be dismissed.
BACKGROUND
The case concerned a long-running dispute between Ryanair and the Dublin Airport Authority about a second terminal at Dublin airport. An Bord Pleanála had granted planning permission for the terminal, and Ryanair wished to challenge that decision. The DAA sought to have such proceedings struck out on the grounds that Ryanair was precluded from bringing them under an agreement entered into arising out of previous proceedings. The issue was whether or not the proceedings now being brought by Ryanair fell under the terms of that agreement. An Bord Pleanála did not participate in the proceedings.
The settlement referred to resulted from proceedings brought in 2005 by Ryanair against the Taoiseach, the Minister for Transport, the DAA and the Attorney General, following a Government decision that a second terminal should be commissioned and built by the DAA. These arose out of a contention made by Ryanair that the costs associated with the operation of Dublin airport are too great.
In connection with the proposed second terminal, it contended that it would be built on too great a scale and to too high a standard, thus generating higher operating costs which would be passed on through operating airlines to their customers. Ryanair had its own alternative proposals for a second terminal.
Following the Government decision, the DAA appointed consultants Pascall and Watson to review previous planning work on a second terminal, including consulting with the main home-based carriers. The consultants made a series of recommendations in relation to the location, operation and capacity of the proposed new terminal, and their report was accepted by the DAA, which in September announced a plan for a 50,000 square metre passenger terminal, costing between €170 million and €200 million.
The settlement of the 2005 proceedings took place in March 2006, and Ryanair withdrew their challenge to the validity of the Government decision. Under the terms of the settlement, "Ryanair confirms and agrees with the Defendants not to bring any further challenges against or arising out of or connected with the Government's decision of the 18th May 2005 concerning T2 or in respect of any implementation in whole or in part of the Medium-Term Masterplan for infrastructural facilities prepared by Pascall and Watson in September 2005 (including the plan for the new Terminal and associated pier facilities) (Pier E) which the DAA may decide to effect."
A letter from the DAA's solicitors accepted this agreement, seeking confirmation that there were "no further terms or collateral agreements". This was agreed.
Mr Justice Clarke said that he had to decide whether those terms of settlement precluded the challenge which Ryanair now sought to bring to the decision of An Bord Pleanála. He had to consider the construction of agreements, the application of this construction to the facts of this case, and whether the proposed terminal was something entirely different from what had been proposed in 2005, which would mean it fell outside the terms of the agreement.
DECISION
He dealt first with the principles of construction of agreements, which he said had to start with what the document actually stated. The context in which it was entered into could only be used as an aid to construction.
The agreement prevents Ryanair from bringing any challenge "arising out of or connected with" the Government's decision on Terminal Two (T2), which required it to be built by the DAA by 2009. Given that this deadline required planning permission to be obtained quickly, "it seems to me clear, therefore, that a challenge to a planning application for a second terminal is a challenge 'arising out of or connected with' the Government's decision," he said.
"I am, therefore, satisfied that any challenge to a planning application for a second terminal in Dublin airport is precluded by the first part of para. 2 of the settlement agreement."
However, in case he was wrong in that, Mr Justice Clarke went on to consider whether the challenge would also be precluded by the second part of that paragraph, which referred to "the implementation of the Medium-Term Masterplan for infrastructural facilities prepared by Pascall and Watson in September 2005".
This required examining whether or not the present proposals were in fact an implementation of the "Masterplan". The Pascall and Watson plan was quite general, he said. Despite this, Ryanair had signed up to a settlement containing it, and must therefore be bound by its terms, even if the DAA present proposals were somewhat larger than it anticipated.
"It difficult to avoid the conclusion that if Ryanair wished to free itself from being precluded from challenging a T2 proposal which was larger or more costly than what it believed it was signing up to, it should have insisted specific terms being included in the settlement agreement," he said.
The only way it could challenge the proposal was if what was proposed was so different from the parameters of the Pascall and Watson plan as to be something entirely different.
This was not the case, and the consultants' plan specifically suggested that it might "be prudent to oversize the initial build" to allow for later expansion.
Ryanair had also argued that, by permitting it to make observations to the planning authorities, the DAA had not sought implementation of the prohibition on a "challenge" to the development, so it was now estopped from seeking to have the present challenge dismissed.
Mr Justice Clarke said he was inclined to the view that a person making observations in the course of a planning application could not be regarded as challenging the proposed development.
He did not think, therefore, that the DAA was precluded from seeking the dismissal of Ryanair's challenge to An Bord Pleanála's decision, and, for the reasons he outlined earlier, he was satisfied that its proceedings should be dismissed.The full text of the judgment is available on www.courts.ie
Solicitors: A & L Goodbody, Dublin (for the plaintiff); Chief State Solicitor (for the defendant)
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Monday, 14 January 2008
Decision day for Dublin airport extension plan
The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) will learn today if it has secured planning permission to build a 7,500sq m (80,729sq ft) extension to its existing terminal at Dublin airport.
The extension was granted planning permission by Fingal County Council last April, but was appealed to An Bord Pleanála by Ryanair and the Portmarnock Community Association.
The extension, which is a separate development to the construction of the second terminal known as T2, is designed to cope with the growth in passenger numbers from Pier A and the recently opened Pier D. To be built in the northwestern corner of the terminal, it will provide additional space for passengers, check-in desks, and retail and restaurant space.
The details of the appeals against the project will not be released until the decision is published. However, it is understood that Ryanair has objected that the DAA is making planning applications in a haphazard way and without consulting airlines in relation to their operational needs. The airline also believes that the extension should not be used for retail and restaurant facilities, but for the expansion of airline operational facilities only.
The plans submitted to the council are for a two-storey triangular-shaped building with an intermediate mezzanine floor.
The extension will sit on a number of concrete columns above ground level so that the apron area below the building can be retained for use by ground handlers and other aviation-related services.
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The extension was granted planning permission by Fingal County Council last April, but was appealed to An Bord Pleanála by Ryanair and the Portmarnock Community Association.
The extension, which is a separate development to the construction of the second terminal known as T2, is designed to cope with the growth in passenger numbers from Pier A and the recently opened Pier D. To be built in the northwestern corner of the terminal, it will provide additional space for passengers, check-in desks, and retail and restaurant space.
The details of the appeals against the project will not be released until the decision is published. However, it is understood that Ryanair has objected that the DAA is making planning applications in a haphazard way and without consulting airlines in relation to their operational needs. The airline also believes that the extension should not be used for retail and restaurant facilities, but for the expansion of airline operational facilities only.
The plans submitted to the council are for a two-storey triangular-shaped building with an intermediate mezzanine floor.
The extension will sit on a number of concrete columns above ground level so that the apron area below the building can be retained for use by ground handlers and other aviation-related services.
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Friday, 4 January 2008
Dublin Airport’s €450m revamp to start within weeks
PASSENGERS at the congested Dublin Airport will see the benefit of €450 million of improvements as early as next year, airport bosses said last night.
Airport authorities plan to start work within weeks on a €55m extension to terminal one, which handles 23 million passengers a year.
“We are expecting permission from An Bord Pleanála by the middle of this month and once we get it, work should start within two to four weeks,” said airport spokesman Paul O’Kane last night.
“The extension will provide more space for passengers, a bigger check-in area and extra space for shops.”
He said the first phase of the extension would be ready for passengers in early 2009, while a year later the airport’s new €395m terminal two will open.
“Once we get terminal two open, we can then go back and look at improving terminal one further as we will have more space for passengers,” he added.
This year the Dublin Airport Authority plans to spend €450m on building projects and expects to make substantial progress on the second terminal, which will handle 15 million passengers a year once it opens.
Work on terminal two is expected to finish late next year, with the new arrivals and departures facilities open in April 2010.
“Dublin is the fastest growing major airport in Europe and the investments that we are making now will deliver the passenger facilities that are required for a major capital city airport,” said airport chief executive Declan Collier.
More than 1,000 construction workers areemployed on building projects at Dublin Airport with the number expected to swell to 1,500 this year and then to reach a peak of 3,000 next year as the volume of work expands.
Figures from Cork Airport yesterday showed a record 3.2 million passengers passed through its arrivals and departure gates during 2007 — with figures up 6% on the year before.
Last year was the first full year of operation since the airport underwent a multi-million-euro transformation with a new terminal building.
By November last year passengers had reached the three million mark — the same figure as was carried in the whole of 2006.
Services operated by Aer Lingus saw a 30% hike in passenger numbers, while the amount of people flying from Cork to Dublin with Ryanair and Aer Arann rose by 20%.
Of the 3.2 million who flew in and out of Cork last year, 44% or 1.4 million were on flights to and from Britain, 500,000 were on internal flights and 205,000 were commuting to and from Poland. Passenger numbers rose 5% to 863,000 for Ryanair, while Aer Arann carried 8% more passengers at 332,000. Aer Lingus carried 1.2 million.
Since Roy Keane became manager of Sunderland Football Club in north-east England, the numbers on flights to and from the region rose 22% to 28,000 last year.
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Airport authorities plan to start work within weeks on a €55m extension to terminal one, which handles 23 million passengers a year.
“We are expecting permission from An Bord Pleanála by the middle of this month and once we get it, work should start within two to four weeks,” said airport spokesman Paul O’Kane last night.
“The extension will provide more space for passengers, a bigger check-in area and extra space for shops.”
He said the first phase of the extension would be ready for passengers in early 2009, while a year later the airport’s new €395m terminal two will open.
“Once we get terminal two open, we can then go back and look at improving terminal one further as we will have more space for passengers,” he added.
This year the Dublin Airport Authority plans to spend €450m on building projects and expects to make substantial progress on the second terminal, which will handle 15 million passengers a year once it opens.
Work on terminal two is expected to finish late next year, with the new arrivals and departures facilities open in April 2010.
“Dublin is the fastest growing major airport in Europe and the investments that we are making now will deliver the passenger facilities that are required for a major capital city airport,” said airport chief executive Declan Collier.
More than 1,000 construction workers areemployed on building projects at Dublin Airport with the number expected to swell to 1,500 this year and then to reach a peak of 3,000 next year as the volume of work expands.
Figures from Cork Airport yesterday showed a record 3.2 million passengers passed through its arrivals and departure gates during 2007 — with figures up 6% on the year before.
Last year was the first full year of operation since the airport underwent a multi-million-euro transformation with a new terminal building.
By November last year passengers had reached the three million mark — the same figure as was carried in the whole of 2006.
Services operated by Aer Lingus saw a 30% hike in passenger numbers, while the amount of people flying from Cork to Dublin with Ryanair and Aer Arann rose by 20%.
Of the 3.2 million who flew in and out of Cork last year, 44% or 1.4 million were on flights to and from Britain, 500,000 were on internal flights and 205,000 were commuting to and from Poland. Passenger numbers rose 5% to 863,000 for Ryanair, while Aer Arann carried 8% more passengers at 332,000. Aer Lingus carried 1.2 million.
Since Roy Keane became manager of Sunderland Football Club in north-east England, the numbers on flights to and from the region rose 22% to 28,000 last year.
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Friday, 7 September 2007
O'Leary to go to court to stop Terminal 2
Ryanair will apply over the next couple of weeks to the High Court for a judicial review of plans for Terminal Two (T2) at Dublin airport including a stay on all construction work.
The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) said yesterday it has placed construction and engineering contracts worth about €200m ahead of an October start date for the construction of the second terminal at the airport subject to challenges.
But Ryanair is going ahead with its challenge to T2.
"We are in the process of preparing documents which should be filed at the High Court within the next couple of weeks," said Jim Callaghan, Ryanair's head of regulatory affairs.
Ryanair first said in August that the new terminal is in breach of planning guidelines and that its High Court action would also centre on the lack of access to the airport.
Mr Callaghan said that Ryanair is not trying to block development at the airport but that the option of a low-cost terminal should be investigated.
Yesterday, Declan Collier, chief executive of the DAA, said the Ryanair challenge was regrettable and costly.
"We regret any delays. Every month we are delayed it will cost us between €3m to €5m.
"I think it's very strange coming from an airline that prides itself on costs and efficiencies. I hope it will review its position."
T2 was given planning permission approval in August 2006 and is due to be completed by the end of 2009.
It is expected that it will be open to the public in April 2010.
Mr Collier was speaking after an address to the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants where he gave an overview of developments at the airport including T2 and eventually terminal three.
"The €200m in contracts range across a number of sectors including the excavation of the site, engineering and steelworks as well as logistics.
There will be about 3,000 workers at peak on the site.
He said the airport will manage 250m passengers over the next ten years and deliver on a €2bn investment programme.
He added that Dublin is the fastest growing major airport in Europe and that it plays a pivotal role in the Irish economy supporting at least 50,000 jobs nationally.
Irish Independent
The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) said yesterday it has placed construction and engineering contracts worth about €200m ahead of an October start date for the construction of the second terminal at the airport subject to challenges.
But Ryanair is going ahead with its challenge to T2.
"We are in the process of preparing documents which should be filed at the High Court within the next couple of weeks," said Jim Callaghan, Ryanair's head of regulatory affairs.
Ryanair first said in August that the new terminal is in breach of planning guidelines and that its High Court action would also centre on the lack of access to the airport.
Mr Callaghan said that Ryanair is not trying to block development at the airport but that the option of a low-cost terminal should be investigated.
Yesterday, Declan Collier, chief executive of the DAA, said the Ryanair challenge was regrettable and costly.
"We regret any delays. Every month we are delayed it will cost us between €3m to €5m.
"I think it's very strange coming from an airline that prides itself on costs and efficiencies. I hope it will review its position."
T2 was given planning permission approval in August 2006 and is due to be completed by the end of 2009.
It is expected that it will be open to the public in April 2010.
Mr Collier was speaking after an address to the Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants where he gave an overview of developments at the airport including T2 and eventually terminal three.
"The €200m in contracts range across a number of sectors including the excavation of the site, engineering and steelworks as well as logistics.
There will be about 3,000 workers at peak on the site.
He said the airport will manage 250m passengers over the next ten years and deliver on a €2bn investment programme.
He added that Dublin is the fastest growing major airport in Europe and that it plays a pivotal role in the Irish economy supporting at least 50,000 jobs nationally.
Irish Independent
Wednesday, 18 April 2007
Plan for second terminal 'nonsense'
PLANS by the Dublin Airport Authority to build a second terminal are a "nonsense" and are designed to raise costs and passenger charges, Ryanair said yesterday.
Its history of "bad, excessively expensive development" means the total cost of developing the terminal - known as T2 - and associated works will be €842m, and not €610m as the DAA claims, the airline claimed.
Yesterday Ryanair's Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Jim Callaghan, told a planning hearing that the DAA had failed to include the €150m 'write-off' of the airport's Pier C when arriving at a final cost.
This had resulted in the cost of the terminal quadrupling from €170m-€200m when it was first announced in September 2005, compared with the €840m bill Ryanair expects the DAA to meet. And he said that if T2 is built, passenger charges could almost double because the airport regulator based passenger charges on the value of assets held by the airport.
The high-cost facility would be bad news for consumers, while Pier C would be "wasted", he added.
T2 could accommodate up to 40 million passengers each year which would be a "manifest breach" of the 30 million a year cap envisaged in the Fingal County Council local area plan on numbers going through the airport. Had the DAA decided to build a €200m facility to accommodate 15 million passengers as it first proposed in 2005, Ryanair would support the plans. But the €842m cost - which the DAA has refuted - could not be justified.
"Most cities in Europe have a low-cost airport or terminal which Dublin hasn't. Ryanair offered to build and pay for a second terminal, but the Government decided to go with the Dublin Airport Authority.
No consideration had been given to building a new terminal to the north of the airport, which would have been more convenient to the existing terminal. Louise Congdon, an airport planning specialist appearing on behalf of Ryanair, said: "If Ryanair assumes control of Aer Lingus it will not use T2 and the development will be abortive."
Paul Melia
Irish Independent
Its history of "bad, excessively expensive development" means the total cost of developing the terminal - known as T2 - and associated works will be €842m, and not €610m as the DAA claims, the airline claimed.
Yesterday Ryanair's Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Jim Callaghan, told a planning hearing that the DAA had failed to include the €150m 'write-off' of the airport's Pier C when arriving at a final cost.
This had resulted in the cost of the terminal quadrupling from €170m-€200m when it was first announced in September 2005, compared with the €840m bill Ryanair expects the DAA to meet. And he said that if T2 is built, passenger charges could almost double because the airport regulator based passenger charges on the value of assets held by the airport.
The high-cost facility would be bad news for consumers, while Pier C would be "wasted", he added.
T2 could accommodate up to 40 million passengers each year which would be a "manifest breach" of the 30 million a year cap envisaged in the Fingal County Council local area plan on numbers going through the airport. Had the DAA decided to build a €200m facility to accommodate 15 million passengers as it first proposed in 2005, Ryanair would support the plans. But the €842m cost - which the DAA has refuted - could not be justified.
"Most cities in Europe have a low-cost airport or terminal which Dublin hasn't. Ryanair offered to build and pay for a second terminal, but the Government decided to go with the Dublin Airport Authority.
No consideration had been given to building a new terminal to the north of the airport, which would have been more convenient to the existing terminal. Louise Congdon, an airport planning specialist appearing on behalf of Ryanair, said: "If Ryanair assumes control of Aer Lingus it will not use T2 and the development will be abortive."
Paul Melia
Irish Independent
Monday, 12 February 2007
Dublin Airport's expansion
This article on The Village Magazine's website is also worth a read. Sorry, I have a backlog of reading. Writtn by Matthew Harley, it's worth a read
Dublin Airport’s planned expansion to 60 million passengers per annum will do at least €8.4bn worth of damage in global warming terms. This can de deduced using DAA and Ryanair data and new analysis contained in the Stern Report: 'The Economics of Climate Change'.
Ryanair has a rather new and relatively environmentally-clean fleet that generates about 93 kg of carbon dioxide per passenger carried. According to Professor Stern, this means each Ryanair passenger does about €17 damage in global-warming terms. If we assume this rate of damage for all Dublin Airport passengers, we are understating things because the Aer Lingus fleet is much older and their passengers travel, on average, 50 per cent more kilometres. This means that Dublin Airport’s 21 million passengers in 2006 did at least €357m damage. When Dublin Airport expands to 60 million passengers a year around 2035 they will be doing over €1bn global warming damage per year, every year. The expansion alone will add some 40 million passengers doing €680m damage every year. When we add up all the damage done between now and 2050, using discounting factors provided by Stern, we get a total damage bill in today’s terms of at least €8.4bn.
This minimum total climate change cost of €8.4bn is additional to the €4.5bn net economic cost UPROAR has estimated for the proposed expansion plan of Dublin Airport. See: www.norunway.com/t2a/appt2.htm. That waste is due to a misuse of very valuable land, the economic cost of resulting road congestion and an estimate of the loss of welfare to communities surrounding Dublin Airport. It can therefore be concluded that the expansion plans of Dublin Airport will incur, at a conservative estimate, a colossal net loss of €13bn.
Dublin Airport’s planned expansion to 60 million passengers per annum will do at least €8.4bn worth of damage in global warming terms. This can de deduced using DAA and Ryanair data and new analysis contained in the Stern Report: 'The Economics of Climate Change'.
Ryanair has a rather new and relatively environmentally-clean fleet that generates about 93 kg of carbon dioxide per passenger carried. According to Professor Stern, this means each Ryanair passenger does about €17 damage in global-warming terms. If we assume this rate of damage for all Dublin Airport passengers, we are understating things because the Aer Lingus fleet is much older and their passengers travel, on average, 50 per cent more kilometres. This means that Dublin Airport’s 21 million passengers in 2006 did at least €357m damage. When Dublin Airport expands to 60 million passengers a year around 2035 they will be doing over €1bn global warming damage per year, every year. The expansion alone will add some 40 million passengers doing €680m damage every year. When we add up all the damage done between now and 2050, using discounting factors provided by Stern, we get a total damage bill in today’s terms of at least €8.4bn.
This minimum total climate change cost of €8.4bn is additional to the €4.5bn net economic cost UPROAR has estimated for the proposed expansion plan of Dublin Airport. See: www.norunway.com/t2a/appt2.htm. That waste is due to a misuse of very valuable land, the economic cost of resulting road congestion and an estimate of the loss of welfare to communities surrounding Dublin Airport. It can therefore be concluded that the expansion plans of Dublin Airport will incur, at a conservative estimate, a colossal net loss of €13bn.
Monday, 29 January 2007
DAA to host information session on €2bn Airport Development Plan
The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is to brief construction firms on its €2bn capital development plan for Dublin Airport.
The event - which is open to all interested firms - takes place on February 14th 2007 at the Carlton Dublin Airport Hotel and is aimed at giving companies, interested in bidding for work, an overview of the DAA's capital plans for the next three years and the types of contracts that will go out to tender during that period. About €1.2bn of the €2bn capital programme will be delivered over the next three years.
The event will also explain the innovative multi-package contract system that is being used for the €600m-plus T2 project at Dublin Airport. The project - which includes a 75,000sq m terminal building, a 24,000sq m pier building, apron works and a wide range of other campus upgrades - is being broken up into 16 separate packages, each of which is being tendered separately.
Mark Foley, the Director of Capital Programmes with the DAA, said that while this type of multi-package approach is rarely used in the Irish market, it is becoming common in large aviation construction contracts overseas and has been used successfully at Heathrow's T5 project.
"By dividing the job into specific contracts - tailored to key disciplines within the T2 programme - our intention is to get the right company with the right skills for each of the 16 individual jobs" - Foley said. "We and our partners are focused on delivering T2 within a tight timeframe and this process also allows us to move at the required speed to have the project completed on target by the autumn of 2009."
Each of the T2 contracts - as well as all other major contracts that collectively comprise the DAA's Airport Development Programme - are being advertised under the OJEU tender process.
The information event begins at 10am on February 14th and will include presentations on the T2 project, the Dublin Airport Masterplan and the other developments that are scheduled to be delivered over the next three years. Senior DAA executives will also be on hand to answer questions on the capital development programme.
Interested parties can confirm their attendance by contacting -
Karin Morkovska at the DAA
Tel: +353 (0)1 814 5423
Email: karin.morkovska@dublinairportauthority.com
The event - which is open to all interested firms - takes place on February 14th 2007 at the Carlton Dublin Airport Hotel and is aimed at giving companies, interested in bidding for work, an overview of the DAA's capital plans for the next three years and the types of contracts that will go out to tender during that period. About €1.2bn of the €2bn capital programme will be delivered over the next three years.
The event will also explain the innovative multi-package contract system that is being used for the €600m-plus T2 project at Dublin Airport. The project - which includes a 75,000sq m terminal building, a 24,000sq m pier building, apron works and a wide range of other campus upgrades - is being broken up into 16 separate packages, each of which is being tendered separately.
Mark Foley, the Director of Capital Programmes with the DAA, said that while this type of multi-package approach is rarely used in the Irish market, it is becoming common in large aviation construction contracts overseas and has been used successfully at Heathrow's T5 project.
"By dividing the job into specific contracts - tailored to key disciplines within the T2 programme - our intention is to get the right company with the right skills for each of the 16 individual jobs" - Foley said. "We and our partners are focused on delivering T2 within a tight timeframe and this process also allows us to move at the required speed to have the project completed on target by the autumn of 2009."
Each of the T2 contracts - as well as all other major contracts that collectively comprise the DAA's Airport Development Programme - are being advertised under the OJEU tender process.
The information event begins at 10am on February 14th and will include presentations on the T2 project, the Dublin Airport Masterplan and the other developments that are scheduled to be delivered over the next three years. Senior DAA executives will also be on hand to answer questions on the capital development programme.
Interested parties can confirm their attendance by contacting -
Karin Morkovska at the DAA
Tel: +353 (0)1 814 5423
Email: karin.morkovska@dublinairportauthority.com
Thursday, 7 December 2006
Dublin Airport Authority lodges planning application for extension of existing terminal at Dublin Airport
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| Artist's drawing of planned Second Terminal |
The Dublin Airport Authority has submitted a planning application with Fingal County Council to build a €50m extension to the existing terminal building at Dublin Airport. he DAA says the 7,500 square metre extension, which it hopes to complete in Autumn 2008, will provide more space for passengers, check-in desks and shops. The extension will be built in phases, with the first elements in use by Spring 2008. The authority says the extension at the northern end of the terminal will help cope with huge passenger growth from Pier A and the new Pier D, due to open next year.
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