Dr. John Lannon:

The phrase I have from contemporaneous notes from 2008 is "a policy decision" in regard to the searching of these aeroplanes. There is a lack of clarity around this but as Dr. Horgan said, we have been told in many different ways that they are not effectively going to search those aircraft. To reiterate what Dr. Horgan said, from the number of complaints and the number of requests we have presented to the gardaí, there is clearly no intent to search them. I have noted that from Ireland's State report for the fourth periodic review of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that there was some very selective reporting in regard to the cases they said had been followed up on. There was one where it was claimed there were some golfers on an aeroplane after it had been inspected. There may well have been golfers on that aeroplane on the day it was inspected but it is very surprising that the only thing they find when they search aeroplanes known to be involved in renditions, kidnapping and torture and know to have been at Shannon Airport was one set of golfers.