Waterford Airport.

Some people posting here seem to believe (in Santa) that the government is an honest broker in this. Just put up the right business case and all will be well, not! Like the university and UHW issue and FDI, that discounts the ever present political interference in Ireland…in everything.

There is no apolitical delivery policy of anything, anywhere in Ireland.

Moon and stars are grandiose event centres and overspecced hospitals.

Access to top tier third level education, a functioning health service and mass aviation are baseline expectations in a modern society. Nearly every other part of the country has access to all three. We have access to none of these. That's unique.

Don't slip into the mentality that these are special or unique expectations - they are not.

Government politicians and their paid shills on social media have brainwashed many into lowering their expectations.

I expect all three to be met. The easiest of these is the Airport - gift wrapped with a bow on top. Unfortunately for Butler and Cummins they already have the whiff of failure on them - and only six months in.

Due to be announced today motorway between cork and limerick..this put ORK within 1 hour of SNN, same for limerick having access to ORK and SNN ..seems a but ridiculous that ORK is also getting 200m to develop and needing pax from munster and south leinster to justify the development

..all the while WAT is denied 12m to lengthen runway to allow Jet Aircraft and to operate as a fully functional regional airport serving the South East

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41651816.html

€150million to buy and millions more to run every year for the City West hotel or refugee centre as it is now at the drop of the hat but not a penny for Waterford airport for decades!

Really does show you what this government thinks of us in Waterford and the surrounding areas.

Our tax money is good enough to house and care for refugees but not good enough to help and improve the lives of tax payers, voters, workers etc from this area in terms of giving them badly needed infrastructure….

Oh and what happened to that €16billion we got from Apple? All very quiet on that front as well and they wonder why there is an undercurrent of anger building!

yup, all our ills are due to immigrants! we get it! strangely enough, immigration is actually required for us to remain a functioning modern economy, we never had the kids folks in order to do so, and we re never gonna have them!

Derry Airport look to be getting a Derry to Dublin PSO route

https://www.derryjournal.com/news/politics/derry-dublin-air-route-to-take-off-again-next-year-says-transport-minister-darragh-obrien-5186329?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLCeq5jbGNrAsJ6IWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEe1uyweP-fQlrJFkycWMlsma4dzY3WVjq1R6DbQ9bURW4k9hdeL1B2Vi_bkk8_aem_yxEbvmCF0iQlIPGqpINh2Q

And any Irish person who lies upon entering another country, commits a crime or is there illegally should be sent home

You seem to be implying that the Fakeugee thing is misinformation/made up. If you do then your even more naive then all your posts suggest and haven't been keeping up with the news. Even the mainstream media has to acknowledge this is a huge issue.

again, grow up! yes, if laws are broken, then…..! but the reality is, we actually need immigration, and fast, or our economy and society will tank, and tank very quickly! its simply not possible to maintain a functioning economy and society with an aging population, i.e. if you think our health system issues are gonna improve under this dynamic, you better think again! immigration is the only game in town in order to try resolve such critical problems, i.e. we need to funnel immigrants into such critical sectors, such as construction, we simply didnt have enough kids to do so, and we re never gonna either!

Maybe the airport can be used to repatriate all of Irelands unsavoury characters back to their place of origin and they can fly Wanderer out on one of them.

Another business case required!

"Exclusive...

Breaking...

Waterford Airport

Ministers Butler and Cummins, along with the Chief Executive and Director of Services of Waterford City and County Council had a lengthy meeting with Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien, his Secretary General and Department officials on Waterford Airport yesterday evening.

The Munster Express understands it was a frank and open exchange on progressing the airport runway extension project, as committed to in the Programme for Government. Department of Transport officials made it clear that the project must comply with infrastructure guidelines and the Public Spending Code that have been put in place since 2019.

A pathway forward for the project was outlined, which requires the submission of a business case, as per the Public Spending Code.

Minister O’Brien outlined his commitment to progressing this project and set out a way forward to making this happen."

fcuking outrageous stuff, and we ll vote them back in, over and over again to!

Its possible, a little transparency would be nice.

Surely if it was in the airports interest it would get accidentally leaked just so people could see that we are being taken for a ride.

Butler n Cummins aint gonna be able to deliver. On any front. Only in it for the fame, the social media spins & the nice pensions. Politics these days in just about managing the mess and hitting the PR hard. Photo bomb some event; Social Post; claim the kudos; Wait for "likes" — rinse n repeat! Sweeping the leaves into a corners until the next breeze rises. Has been since the Crash of 08.

Id agree that the current Govt is seeking to lower all expectations. just heard that they want developers to decrease the minimum size of an apartment. How small is small. Future generations will be living in chicken coops!

Michael O'Leary just on with Ivan Yates just there said that Waterford will never be a commercial airport as it's in the catchment area of both Cork and Dublin!

He cited his friend in Nenagh who used to use Cork and Shannon now using Dublin due to Motorway connectivity!