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Opening Statement at Committee on Transport hearing
Opening statement of Children’s Rights Over Flights to the Joint Committee on Transport, 18th March 2026 re. the General Scheme of the Dublin Airport (Passenger Capacity) Bill 2026 Thank you all for having us. Children’s Rights Over Flights is an all-volunteer unfunded campaign group, formed directly in response to the campaign by vested interests to…
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Health professionals and children’s rights advocates rip up Minister’s bill to abolish Dublin Airport cap
18th March 2026, Kildare St, Campaigners including Children’s Rights over Flights and Irish Doctors for the Environment led led a protest in opposition to the expansion of aviation – specifically the lifting of the Dublin airport passenger cap, at a time of worsening climate crisis.
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Joint Letter on Aviation Emissions and Passenger Cap
Calling for “an urgent halt to the Government’s intervention to remove the Dublin Airport passenger cap” out of concern for “the negative implications that the resultant increase in emissions will have for the public interest – especially children’s best interests and public health, both globally and in Ireland”
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The Dublin Airport Passenger Cap Bill – irresponsible climate destruction, dictating to local communities, and free pass for aviation to undermine Climate Act
In light of 1) the dramatic escalation of the State-declared ClimateEmergency over the last 12 months, 2) worsening implications for childrenand future generations in Ireland as everywhere, and related State child rights obligations, and 3) already record-levels of increasing aviation fossilfuel pollution, we assert that this Dublin Airport Passenger Cap Bill should be withdrawn. Notwithstanding…
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Call for Clean Air Strategy to adequately address aviation air pollution
“The Clean Air Strategy must be responsive to emerging research and health risks, and all sources of air pollution, including aviation, if it is to be fully fit-for-purpose.” – Children’s Rights Over Flights submission to the Public consultation on updating the Clean Air Strategy. Aviation pollution has serious consequences for air quality and related health…
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CHILDREN’S RIGHTS GROUP EXPRESSES OUTRAGE AT PLAN TO SCRAP AIRPORT PASSENGER CAP
Campaign group Children’s Rights Over Flights is outraged that the cabinet plans to approve legislation today that would prevent any limits to passenger numbers at Dublin Airport, even as the State-declared climate emergency worsens. The group says it is reckless and irresponsible to abolish the ‘passenger cap’, given the already record levels of aviation fossil…
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At COP time, calling for action on aviation
Highlighting need to reduce flights as part of climate demo Children’s Rights Over Flights campaigners were out marching as part of the climate demonstration in Dublin on Saturday 15th Nov, with hundreds of others. We sent a clear message, during COP, that we need to reduce flights, and that all sectors, including aviation, need to…
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CROF appalled to hear that Minister O’Brien attempting to remove Dublin Airport cap
As a group advocating for the rights of children, we are appalled to hear that Minister Darragh O’Brien is attempting to force through the removal of the passenger cap at Dublin airport. It is truly shocking that a minister tasked with tackling the climate crisis, and the avoidable harms it’s wreaking on our children’s future,…
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Messages From Above
Michael O’Leary recently informed us that carbon emissions (GHG’s) from aviation worldwide make up just 2.5% of the world’s total. He did not mention, however, that flying happens to be one of our most carbon-intensive activities. The reason it makes up such a small proportion of the worlds’ carbon emissions is that only around 10%…
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Campaigners call for end to aviation greenwashing after watchdog rules DAA ad ‘misleading’
Children’s Rights Over Flights campaign group welcomes decision that requires greater transparency on claims about airport pollution 23rd July, Dublin – Parents, grandparents and other supporters of the Children’s Rights Over Flights (CROF) campaign welcomed the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) decision to uphold complaints about sustainability claims made in a Dublin Aviation Authority (DAA) advertisement. The…
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