Dáil debates

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Ceisteanna – Questions

Cabinet Committee Meetings

3:55 pm

Photo of Enda KennyEnda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree with that. Dublin Airport has some of the most sophisticated equipment of any airport. We have other airports, such as Cork Airport, Shannon Airport, Ireland West Airport Knock and the smaller regional facilities, and we also have ports. Millions of people come into this country through Dublin Airport every year. We do not yet know for how long this was going on. It appears to have been quite sophisticated. It seems that these diversions enabled people who had disembarked from aircraft to go to a different place before they got to passport and immigration control. I commend the Garda on its work in making a number of arrests on Sunday night. I hope that this matter will be taken very seriously and that it will be responded to in kind at all our airports and ports in terms of security and vigilance.

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