Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions

Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion

5:25 pm

Ms Margaretta D'Arcy:

We are at Shannon once a month for one hour. We always go to the gardaí to ask if they will inspect the aeroplanes and they say "No". When I ask who has told them not to inspect to the aeroplanes, they do not give an answer. There is actually a climate of total disdain when we ask these serious questions. They tell us that if we find something, bring it to them. We ask if we can look at an aeroplane if we find something.

Instead, we had a whole barrier of gardaí, paid overtime to prevent us from going in. To my mind, this is corrupting gardaí because they should be able to tell us who has told them not to search the planes.

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