"As you can imagine, you've got 20 parking spaces, and we come along and say we're going to take out two of them or something like that to give spaces for people on bikes, it doesn't go down particularly well."
The company's application includes preliminary results of its assessments of the environmental impacts of raising the cap from 32 million to 40 million passengers per year.
Elsewhere, there are movements towards creating respite from noise pollution in urban centres. But there’s little research done in Dublin, says Sibéal Devilly.
For the past few months, people who live and work near the Christ Church end of Thomas Street have noticed a high-pitched screech, sometimes late into the night.
Ambient sound levels have been rising for years, as they have been in many cities as they get more crowded, and council officials are looking for ways to slow the increase.
The Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said in May that the use of noise against someone can be considered assault. Yet council officials told a councillor that Gardaí advised them to put in the alarms.
