Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

On the last point, New York University prepared a study for the House of Commons which made quite clear that actual knowledge would be part of a state's assisting the issue of rendition. This State has no knowledge of these activities.

The Deputy referred to a so-called discrepancy. Yesterday, the Minister for Transport answered a question from Deputy Gormley about the particular planes that were identified as having passed through Shannon, stating that 43 of them had landed and 43 had taken off. Therefore there was no discrepancy in that regard. These are civilian aircraft out of approximately 9,000 civilian aircraft that landed in Shannon during that period.

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