Waterford Airport.

his skill/abilities/question asking would be better placed if he was part of one of the major parties surely…..? who nose 👃 he might even have gotten a ministerial post ? Same applies to Lowry and the Healy Rae’s….what have they achieved for their back yards since they haven’t been needed to prop up a ‘gubber-meant’

Maybe if offered or guaranteed a full ministry as Cullen was, otherwise the political weight of especially FG and other parties across KK/WX/CW would probably neutralise a backbencher. Thats been the story for ever. The region has all the hallmarks of beggar your neighbour and low state funding as the SEEM research shows and as Shanahan's questioning regularly elicits. Check out Shanahan's Dail debates and questioning and compare with Mr Cullinane. The latter got 20,000 votes, to do what?

You may be right, but at this particular time, I disagree with you. Is there anything more useless than the performance of our other representatives. Four years of government and four years of flaccid SF opposition. For what? Did 20,000 people vote for silence from David Cullinane? That can't be right.

Hopefully the electorate cop on and dump 3 of our so called representatives

Problem is there's no alternatives.

Maybe the farmers party might have their act together !!!

There are some votes going a begging if there was an alternative reasonable offering rather than the 4 party alliance we currently have.

I foolishly clicked on this thread, thinking I would learn something about Waterford airport.

SOooooooooooooooo far off topic ... 🙄

Storm in a teacup.

That's outrageous, and barely believable, that members of the Board hasn't even been consulted on these matters.

However, I recall that Board members were complaining in the past about the lack of meetings - seemingly 8-9 months would go without a meeting taking place.

Doesn't exactly give the impression of a well run and well governed organisation.

Shannon taking extra flights is not going to happen if the cap stays.

Its like saying H&M, Zara etc would open in Lisduggan if City Square was full!

The end result is no outlet.

Ryanair have always had disputes with daa but not once expanded Shannon or Cork significantly as a result.

Edit - quoted wrong user.

There is no county council in Waterford.

No they went out of business and had left Waterford long before that. Was a small airline VLM or something after that but they also folded.

I have to say I’m not optimistic about this unless there’s a major change in direction politically- the green agenda nonsense would have to go. The greens hold transport and are not going to spend money on new airports

Listened back to our Green TD on Damien Tiernan discussing the airport. He is full of contradictions he said before the report was published that he could not commit to supporting it until he read the report. Now after reading it he is saying he is not qualified to make a judgement on the decision if it’s positive or negative towards the expansion. I really hope the people of Waterford remember this when the elections come. We all know Ryan is biased towards WAT and you can be sure Marc is just as much. What hope do we have when this is what is representing us in the dail?

Indeed. it was only handy if you needed to be in that part of the country - southend/ Kent. ( ironically I did indeed once and flew in and out of there from Waterford)

If you needed to be in London city or the greater area you may as well be flying into Cardiff.