Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

From the Deputy's engagement with the courts, we know he has no respect for the law. He is now raising issues that fall within the brief of the justice area, but I am happy to deal with them. What he has just said is untrue. He stated that the person he named had been asked to sign a bond not to return to Shannon Airport. That is entirely untrue. What the person has been asked to do is to sign a bond to keep the peace. A condition of her release was that she does not enter a portion of Shannon Airport excluded to the general public. She is perfectly entitled to be in any part of Shannon Airport that is open to the general public. If common sense were operating and the lady in question were not being used by a small group of individuals as a campaigning tool in the context of the issue the Deputy referenced earlier, common sense would have prevailed and she would have signed a bond to keep the peace. If she wished to attend at Shannon Airport and behave in a lawful way, she could do so. There is no question of her signing a bond.

It is offensive in the context of this issue to reference Nuremberg, and I wonder why the Deputy feels the need to make that reference in questions he puts to me. I am very interested and he might clarify that.

I must not say too much else because my understanding is that a further prosecution is pending in the case of a similar difficulty. My responsibility is to ensure that individuals do not wander out onto the runways in Shannon Airport, placing their lives at risk and possibly placing at risk the lives of 200 or 300 passengers. What would happen if the lady in question, accompanied by her some of her friends, were to wander onto a runway, God forbid, as an aeroplane was landing? If the pilot sought to avoid killing them and, as a consequence, the aeroplane crashed and 200 or 300 people died, would the Deputy take responsibility for that?

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