Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Shannon Airport: Discussion with Shannon Airport Authority

10:50 am

Photo of Dessie EllisDessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In the context of the point made earlier about Shannon and the military flights, what mechanism does the board have to deal with that? Human rights issues have been raised in this regard. Does the board make a judgment on any of that? We have no way of monitoring these flights so how does the board make a judgment on, for example, a request for more military flights? How does the board make a decision on whether that is acceptable or is such a decision left to the Government?

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