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

In terms of chartered flights going through the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, is it the responsibility of the company or the US State Department to make the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade aware of what is on board the plane? If an aeroplane is full of US service men and women, which it is acknowledged would be permitted to have side arms or rifles stored away, there is potential for other light arms. Would the witnesses have an itemised list of what is on board the aeroplane and is there a list of boxes you tick where one indicates what is acceptable and what is not acceptable?