Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I repeat that we do not know, nor do we have any evidence or information, that any prisoner transported through an Irish airport was the subject of extraordinary rendition. The closest that anybody has come to making a linkage with Irish airports is a suggestion that some aircraft which may have been used for extraordinary rendition elsewhere and at a different time travelled through Shannon Airport.

The Deputy asked what is different from in the past. The difference is that the current Government has made a clear commitment in the programme for Government to enforce the prohibition of the use of Irish airports and related facilities for purposes that are not in line with the dictates of international law. Where overflights are concerned and where prisoners are being transported through Irish airports, there is a requirement to seek our permission. If, at any time, we receive evidence that there is a breach of this requirement, we will have our law enforcement officials take action on it.

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