Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions
Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed)
4:15 pm
Dr. Karen Devine:
There is no comparator in regard to the facilitation of the transit of troops through a neutral state. As I said in my presentation, other neutral European states had specifically denied this permission and denied the use of their air space to the US military en route to theatres of war in Iraq.
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