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Varadkar backs calls to increase passenger cap at Dublin Airport but ‘in the right way’

Taoiseach said any amendment to the cap must be done through the planning process

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at a turning of the sod ceremony at Churchfields in Dublin 15, a development of 300 affordable, cost rental and social homes. He says he supports calls for the 32 million passenger cap at Dublin Airport to be lifted.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has again backed calls for the 32 million passenger cap at Dublin Airport to be raised “but in the right way”.

Speaking in Dublin, he said any amendment to the cap must be done through the planning process.

Varadkar was speaking as tensions have surfaced within government over the future of Dublin Airport.

The airport’s operator DAA has come under fire for only applying in December to Fingal County Council for permission ...