Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Part of the problem is that since the Minister for Transport declared once and loudly that there were no circumstances where Irish sovereign airspace was being used for this purpose, he has gone silent on the matter. To my knowledge, he has not commented publicly in any definitive way. The journalists writing about this have been forthcoming in providing their documentary evidence. I know because I sought it from them, and they gave it to me. I do not even think the Government asked them for it, but I am told it was supplied to them, nevertheless. I do not get a sense that the Tánaiste considers this to be a serious matter. He stated that the only purpose would be to save fuel. At the end of the day, we are told that these flights contain serious weapons of war that are ultimately being used by the Israel Defense Forces. There are perhaps not an awful lot of unilateral things we can do as a State to register our protest against what Israel is doing, but surely one is to be able to say hand on heart that our airspace is not being used for this purpose.

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