Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

There was no connection to the United States military or to Israel. Correlations have been drawn between the initial Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023 and the increase in applications for exemptions from that month. The two are unrelated.

Applications for exemptions predominately fall into one of two categories, namely US civil air operators contracted to carry US military personnel with their unloaded, standard issue weapons, which require an exemption if they operate in Irish sovereign territory, or scheduled flights in Europe by Irish-registered aircraft operating outside Ireland. There was one particular case that has given rise-----

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