Waterford Airport.

That must work both ways so,

I assume Dublin FDI are advertising Waterford as a location when any big MNCs are looking to build.

Are they ****.

Kerry is within 2 hours of cork, cork and Shannon are within 2 hours of each other, dublin is within 2 hours of Belfast etc etc

Frankfurt Hahn is within 90 minutes of Frankfurt International yet Ryanair continue to use Hahn..

…and rail, we really need to modernise our rail, or we re fcuked!

And it would be even longer if the schools were not off. Thr traffic is much lighter at the moment

I think they seriously need to seek the money from elsewhere at this point as I cannot ever see the government committing to this, they do not like the idea of the south east having an airport obviously and they'll just indefinitely kick the can like they did again this month

You haveto realise that in saying what you are saying that you are accepting the official slant on matters. They are not honest brokers looking to make an independent decision. They are actually trying to stymie the project. We should not be so naïve as to accept their slant on matters.

What I'm saying is a company has been paid good money to provide a business case for government funding. I assume it wasn't their first rodeo and now the government is saying the document, that they have been paid to produce, is not actually fit for purpose

Either Waterford airport are due a refund or the company in question need to call out the government.

I wonder what they have to say in all of this.

It was due to be built back as far as 2008! It was included in the transport21 programme and €27 million was committed by government at the time (no private investment).

2019 the airport looked for €5 million which really seems a bargain now, now they are looking for €12 million and here we still are still talking about it.

I'm a bit confused. If Cork is as close to Waterford as Dublin is, why don't people here use Cork instead? Cork Airport is a breeze to get through, and has any and all routes Waterford would ever have. Unless you're travelling to Dublin for something Cork doesn't have, in which case you'd still be travelling there even with a Waterford Airport as if Cork doesn't have it Waterford won't

I get the first argument, but not the far more options one. 99% of the options out of Dublin will never be available out of a Waterford Airport, and so there will always be commuting to Dublin. There are people leaving in their hundreds of thousands from Cork every year to Dublin, even with a large amount of flights out of Cork

I only ask as Cork doesn't have an M50 bottleneck like Dublin, and the airport is in the right area of Cork for people commuting from Waterford VS Dublin Airport being north of the city

The Waterford to Cork road has its own traffic problems and probably worse to be honest. At least the trip up to Dublin is generally not bad outside of an accident but there's so many bottlenecks on the Cork road that its actually worse.

Rush hour, breakdowns, accidents and road works. It can be a minefield.

Too many pinch points both to Cork and Dublin Airports. Both situated on the 'wrong sides' for access from the SE. Naas Road, Red Cow, M50, Castlemartyr, Killegh, Jack Lynch Tunnel, Mahon Point - all can be log jammed at the wrong times of day - or put out completely at any time of day by accidents. Outbound journeys require excessive padding - or else you're abandoning your trip. Ironically, an airport in the SE allows us to fly out of this infrastructure hellscape to more interesting places.

Has the Department of Transport conducted any analysis of journey times to airports make sure an island country is properly connected? This question is rhetorical. I don't think they have. In fact, I'm not sure exactly what they do. Co-ordinate the other quangos? They're so many quangos they probably have managers managing managers managing managers.

What's interesting is Butler is now blaming the Department of Transport. OK, Mary let's go with that - let's say the Department lifers are blocking it. A civil service blocking the progress of a project in the Programme for Government. Who's running the show? Not very democratic is it? Or are they just the latest group to be set up as patsies to cover a political failure?