Tag: dublin-airport
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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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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of increasing aviation fossilfuel pollution, we assert that this Dublin Airport Passenger Cap Bill should be withdrawn.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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