Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is a fair point. It is just that in the correspondence to this committee it is not acknowledged. You speak about 50,000 in one year, 2013, but in terms of the scale over the period of time that would be a concern. Do you think the fact that two Departments and Government permit such a huge number of members of the US army, marines or whatever, to come through Shannon Airport on the way to the theatre of war, as they were doing in the vast majority of cases, is commensurate with a policy of neutrality?