{"id":183499,"date":"2025-11-16T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/183499\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:46:13","slug":"daa-promises-crucial-noise-data-is-on-the-way-as-cacophony-over-ceo-kenny-jacobs-grows-louder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/183499\/","title":{"rendered":"DAA promises crucial noise data is on the way as cacophony over CEO Kenny Jacobs grows louder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data is main hurdle blocking vital planning application to allow the airport expand\n<\/p>\n

\"'Elbows-out'<\/p>\n

‘Elbows-out’ DAA CEO Kenny Jacobs<\/p>\n

\"Dublin<\/p>\n

Dublin Airport. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n

\"Transport<\/p>\n

Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n

DAA expects to provide information \u201clater this month\u201d to airport noise regulator ANCA about its application to expand airport capacity to 40 million passengers per annum<\/p>\n

The required data on aircraft noise is the main hurdle blocking the granting by Fingal of the vital planning application to allow the airport expand.<\/p>\n

But that long-awaited breakthrough on airport planning comes against the backdrop of what sources have described as the \u201cdistraction\u201d of a three-sided standoff between the DAA board, its CEO Kenny Jacobs and Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n

\"Dublin<\/p>\n

Dublin Airport. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n

Jacobs\u2019 \u201celbows-out\u201d style with staff and what one source described as \u201ca Punch and Judy show\u201d with the local authority in the press is believed to have led to a row at board level and a \u20ac1m severance deal less than three years into a seven-year term.<\/p>\n

That deal is currently sitting on Mr O\u2019Brien\u2019s desk awaiting sign-off but he has urged both two sides to reconcile. However, the board has indicated that its position on Jacobs\u2019 departure has not changed, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Asked whether the DAA board, chairman or CEO were concerned about any potential impact on DAA leadership\u2019s focus on planning matters, a spokeswoman referred to a previous statement that said \u201cKenny, the executive team, and board are fully aligned in the focus on business-as-usual matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

DAA seems to be in a state of flux and changeover and it needs certainty to plan for the future<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mayor of Fingal Tom O\u2019Leary, a Fine Gael councillor, said he was \u201cvery anxious to see the issues around Dublin Airport move on to allow it to continue to serve Ireland and its needs into the future\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDAA seems to be in a state of flux and changeover and it needs certainty to plan for the future along with its chief executive, either the current one or a new one. But we need decisions and we need to move forward, all together in unison.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a briefing to Dublin Chamber last week, Fingal CEO AnnMarie Farrelly pointed out that both the Dublin Airport Local Area Plan and the Fingal County Development Plan provide the planning framework for the growth of the airport to 40 million passengers.<\/p>\n

\"Transport<\/p>\n

Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n

A Fingal spokesman said ANCA had requested the information it required \u201cin March 2024, and it is understood it will be supplied in the coming weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce received it will allow the noise assessment to progress and will ultimately facilitate a planning decision,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data is main hurdle blocking vital planning application to allow the airport expand ‘Elbows-out’ DAA CEO Kenny Jacobs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,26,18,33201,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-183499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dublin-airport","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115558979191176080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}