Sean Defoe
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707 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Sean Defoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because, I mean, look at it, you look at 11 councils, third of the councils in the country, to say, and particularly an area like Fingal, that there's no site there that you could have charged dereliction on, it's ridiculous.
No.
Actually collected is the hope.
I think it was about 2.4 million euro was collected in 2024 with a third of the councils not doing anything.
So the idea being if the charge is properly bought on those and they're registered through the LPT system so they are available so people know who the owners are, that they will actually force them into something being done and maybe either selling it to someone who's going to do it up or taking advantage of the grants that are there to do it.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, yes and no.
It is effectively going to be lifted, but the responsibility is moving to the Minister for Transport.
So at the moment, the idea is that Dara O'Brien will have ultimate discretion or whoever the Minister for Transport is in the future of what the cap is, whether there's a cap and whether to lift that or not.
And the bodies like Fingal County Council or any planning regulator won't be able to effectively impose a cap, as we've seen in the last while.
They will be entirely written out of the process in this.
So it entirely becomes the discretion of the minister.
On one hand, the economic argument is that's good.
The minister can add an order, increase it to from 32 million to 60 million, whatever they wanted.
The other side is the local residents, the noise, complaints that they've had.
So Dara O'Brien says, look, this has been through an awful lot of legal issues.
wrangling behind the scenes between him and the Attorney General to make sure it stands up to that legal scrutiny, but that also any increase would be done in consultation with those local residents.
What that looks like in reality and are they ultimately, you know, as Michael Heria said, you bought a house near the airport, what do you expect?
Are they the sacrificial lambs for the extra flights or whatever?
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