Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy is correct that a Cabinet sub-committee was set up. It was set up in 2008 and dealt with some familiar aspects of international human rights law. It met on three occasions and was chaired by the Minister for Finance. The renewed programme for Government in October provided for a review, and a change if necessary, of the legislation affecting civilian aircraft in the context of the existing, ongoing work of the Cabinet sub-committee on human rights. It also provided for the strengthening, as is appropriate, of the powers of inspection of such aircraft which is the very issue to which Deputy Higgins has referred on several occasions and the collection of flight information. Events have rather caught up on that but it is a matter of ongoing concern.

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