Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

"Thorough and robust" is an abuse of language in this scenario. When an aircraft changes its sign to a military sign, when the Minister knows that this week the aircraft proceeded to an airbase engaged in bombing raids in Syria, what does he think that aircraft was doing there, if it was not involved in military operations, when another one went to a position on the Syrian border that is used by the US to launch drone strikes? There were 70 requests for landings by the US military in Shannon in June of last year, when NATO was running its largest war game since the Cold War in Poland, compared with 40 in January and 37 in August. We have been repeatedly assured by the Minister that these aircraft are not involved in military exercises. Will he tell us what they were involved in during this spike period?

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