DAA has confirmed that security staff from Cork will be working at Dublin Airport this weekend.
The Cork staff will make up part of 40 extra officers that the airport said they will have over the Bank Holiday.
Speaking to the Oireachtas Transport Committee today, daa CEO Mr Dalton Philips said between three and six Cork Airport security officers will be working in Dublin Airport this weekend.
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"Having those officers up, even though it's between three and six depending on the day, makes a real difference," he said.
The rest of the extra security officers will come from new recruits who have just been certified and other staff who are certified to work security will be redeployed from other areas of the airport.
Mr Philips told the Oireachtas Transport Committee that last Sunday the airport were down 37 staff of the 270 who were rostered to work.
17 of these were new recruits who had not yet been fully certified to begin work, and they were mistakenly rostered due to a "manual processing issue".
Mr Philips said the other 20 staff were absent from work.
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