Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Shannon Airport: Discussion with Shannon Airport Authority
10:50 am
Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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In the context of the point made earlier about Shannon and the military flights, what mechanism does the board have to deal with that? Human rights issues have been raised in this regard. Does the board make a judgment on any of that? We have no way of monitoring these flights so how does the board make a judgment on, for example, a request for more military flights? How does the board make a decision on whether that is acceptable or is such a decision left to the Government?