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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
James Lawless: The Deputy can talk down his time if he wishes. I will talk in the time available to me.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Through the Chair.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (17 Oct 2024)
James Lawless: I am addressing my remarks to you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will continue. There is also nothing stopping the airport from serving propeller planes tomorrow. There is no impediment whatsoever. What the airport is seeking is state support to start a new business model that would involve a longer runway with larger planes with no commitment I have seen that any airline is ready to take...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate what has been said. At the virtual meeting of 16 EU defence ministers, there was unanimity in condemning the violation of international humanitarian law by the IDF in firing on peacekeepers. At the Foreign Affairs Council earlier in the week, it took 48 hours to get agreement on a statement because of one country objecting to some language, which we found very distressing and...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (17 Oct 2024)
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Air Navigation Orders
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
John Brady: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to respond to reports that substantial amounts of munitions intended for the Israeli military are being transported through Irish airspace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42050/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy John Brady. I ask the Minister to respond to reports that substantial volumes of munitions intended for the Israeli military are being transported through Irish airspace, and if he will make a statement on the matter. In fairness, there has been a fair amount in the public domain about this. We know that we need to ensure that we are not in any...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, for allowing me to address this question. Under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders, 1973 and 1989, the carriage of munitions of war by civil aircraft in Irish sovereign territory and by Irish-registered civil aircraft, wherever they are operating, is prohibited, unless an exemption from this...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Minister.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: I will come back with the remainder in my follow-up answer.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Could the Minister provide a timeline for when the examination will be completed? What we had seen on The Ditch about what was believed to be weaponry travelling through Irish sovereign airspace would not be acceptable, I hope, to most right-thinking people regarding what is a genocidal slaughter being carried out by the IDF against the Palestinian people. We need to make sure this happens...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: First, to be clear, I agree with the Deputy. It is totally unacceptable, should any munitions carried through Irish airspace or landing in Irish airports en route to the conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and the Middle East, especially following what we heard earlier about our soldiers being on the front line there, and the citizens of Gaza. Every party, and I think every Deputy, in this House...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister will have to come back on this as we are over time.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Most people will agree that if these provisions do not exist in domestic law, we need to make sure they are there. The Minister raised searching and sampling manifests and the ability to sanction if there are breaches of international law. How quickly can this be done? What can be done? I referred to the initial nine flights that The Ditch had highlighted. One of those carriers has...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Navigation Orders (17 Oct 2024)
Eamon Ryan: The information provided relates to wide variety of carriers. We have contacted every single one of them. The initial allegations were related primarily to carriers based in Belgium. We have been in contact with the Belgian Government, and I expect we will get the same information that The Ditch has been releasing. That will give us much greater insight, we expect, into whether exactly...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: In support of Deputy Smith, it might be fortuitous to look again at the overall structures relating to defence positions throughout the country, given the internationally changing emphasis on security and the challenges emerging on a regular basis. Might it now be fortuitous to look again and reconsider a possible renewal of defensive locations, strategically?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy has resumed his seat so he has to stop talking.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)
Bernard Durkan: It is very important down our way.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank both Deputies for their remarks. I accept what Deputy Smith said about the role of our military in protecting the State, especially against the shocking violence over the 30-year period from the late 1960s to the nineties. I read a book recently, written by Ronan McGreevy and Tommy Conlon, about the kidnapping of Don Tidey, when a private and a garda lost their lives. It...