Who actually wants the Dublin Airport passenger cap abolished?

Dublin is functionally full. See "functionally" above.

So strained in its infrastructure, resources, or services that it cannot effectively accommodate further growth.

You can squeeze 5 million, 10 million more people in, in terms of density. Theres plenty of space.

You just can't cater for them. You cant supply them with housing or utilities or sufficient roads, school places or doctors.

Demand for housing, transport, and healthcare outstrips supply. National deficit of ~250,000 homes.

Overcrowded Luas and Dart. Low doctor and teacher availability. Weekly housing protests. House prices increased by 8.1% in the 12 months to the end of March 2025. 70% of national water infrastructure is outdated. Slow/no response from Gardai and other emergency services.

Great. Dublin is still functionally full.

Congested, yes. Lack of housing, yes. Lack of school places, yes. Outdated water infrastructure, yes. Insufficient gardai, yes. Planning/Judicial/Bureaucracy delays, yes. Pesistant hospital bed shortages, yes. Prisons over capacity, yes. Electricity, not over capacity yet but on the way.

Its more efficient to just not put more people in the city in the first place. Even tourists will add to the burden on roads, water, and numbers gardai must patrol.

Space is not the issue. There's room for a million in the phoenix park and the beaches. Doesn't mean they can have shelter, proper transport, water, electricity, policing, healthcare, schooling. All of which are under severe strain.

Yes Dublin is functionally full. And adding more arrivals will only make it worse. Dog whistle or cat trombone or whatever you're having yourself, or not.

I'm just relaying facts. Your dispute is with the truth. I have great facts. The best facts, I have the best facts, everyones saying it.

Sad that you would stalk me around other threads. Very sad. Low energy.

Dublin infrastructure is really struggling congestion, public transport, housing, water supplies. School places, medical services, hospital beds, GPs. You'd have to head buried in the sand to deny that. M50 is a car park a lot of the time. That Dublin commuter belt is heading to the midlands makes it's own argument. Airport carparks are further and further away from it.

Dublin is functionally full.

And the m50 is above capacity.

Not my fault if certain people cant accept these facts and get all wound up about them. Not very smart. They're not smart people.

3rd most congested city in europe. (I would expect 1st any time theres a major gig on)

Insufficient gardai. 140 fewer Gardaí in the Dublin division compared to 2020. No dedicated transport police. (fc schalke were able to have their parade of thuggery just off the capitals main street completely unopposed).

Shortage of tourist accommodation. avg 83.4pc occupancy rate, the highest across 35 European countries. Demand consistently outpacing supply. (again, any big gig on you're getting fleeced if you're lucky)

Student accommodation crisis. And construction planning crisis for the buildings which could help to alleviate these crises.

Rising homelessness. Tents appearing along the canals again.

Ringsend water treatment operating at max/above max capacity.

85% dependency on 1 water source (liffey).

Moratorium on certain industrial projects due to strained electric grid, aged electric infrastructure. Emergency power generators imported.

Shortage of hospital beds, consultants and a+e staff. Exodus of nurses.

Data from July 2025 revealed that more than 26,000 patients nationally spent at least 24 hours in an ED during the first six months of the year. Mater Hospital issued a public plea for people to avoid its emergency department.

Shortage of prison places. Man with 123 convictions avoids prison. After pleading guilty to 15 charges. Real headline. many similar. Lack of staff, outdated facilities, reduced rehabilitation capacity.

Childcare waiting list at 13,500. With costs among the highest in Europe.

Insufficient school places, high class sizes, teacher exodus.

Rise in derelict and vacant sites.

Luas and dart overcrowded.

and the occasional riot.

… but low density lads.

Where are we going to put all these arrivals? Tourist accommodation is already the highest across 35 European countries.

Student accommodation crisis. Homeless crisis. Building crisis. Asylum seekers aplenty. And rent crisis. And planning is all jammed up. And lack of construction workers.

Its not xenophobia to understand that this just won't work out well.

I used the quote function (which you struggle with). It's a direct unedited quote.
You are using the ridiculous example of "room for a million in the phoenix park and the beaches" (directly quoting), to represent the point as it is easily knocked down. That is literally a strawman fallacy. If you disagree, you don't understand the meaning of the word.

The irony oy say not to use words you understand. I you forgetting your embarrassing infer fisaco.

The transport system would want to be in place before it takes 'that step forward'. But its not and it won't be.

The upgrades to the airport transfer infrastructure will take place before the terminal updates.
It's trivial to make that a condition of approval.
The metro is intended to be complete by 2033/34. The long term plan for the airport goes to 2035, 2040 and 2050.

Once again, you ignorance highlights exactly why expanding Dublin airport is both require and feasible.

Your best case scenario is that Dublin might one day only be 4th most congested city.

Given you lack of knowledge of what's involved, you guesstimate of the infrastructure is entirely worthless.

"Build in the parks and beaches?" - From your post 373 to me.

Words I never said. So misquote.

"room for a million in the phoenix park and the beaches" (directly quoting)" - there you go, you managed it without adding bits this time. the context being a discussion about density and lack of facilites for people.

Space is not the issue. (this bit is a counter argument). There's room for a million in the phoenix park and the beaches. (this bit is my own argument).

So not its not a strawman. A strawman would be something like 'you want them all to live in the phoenix park'.

DAA is looking to increase the cap imminently, with some expecting a significant increase in traffic by 2026. Not 2035.

As ever, all facts you dislike ignored completely. Random stuff made up. Misquotes, weird tactics, finding weird interpretations of one thing to mean another, hypocrisy, saltiness. Just impossible.

He didn't write the article he quoted.

"These compression nights are a symptom of supply struggling to meet demand"

If any one had read it they would have noticed this nugget.

"…The decision on the Dublin airport cap will be critical to future tourism performance. With demand for air travel expected to continue rising and with Dublin being the main access point, a continued cap at Dublin Airport, will have a detrimental impact on Ireland’s ability to grow tourism"

"…Hosting displaced Ukrainians and others seeking international protection is taking tourist accommodation stock out of the market that would otherwise be available tourism…"

Of course an article written by Failte Ireland is going to promote Tourism regardless of cost. That's its job.

1 man. 1 sq km.

population density: 1 per sq km.

add 1 man.

population density: 2 per sq km.

Mr O’Brien said the number of passengers passing through the airport was likely to exceed 36 million this year. - Irish times.

the capacity wont keep pace with the demand.

how many asses do i have to kick at 1 time. im like bruce lee in here.