Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I already articulated my horror at what is happening in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, and my condemnation of what I consider to be war crimes and breaches of international humanitarian law. However, the presentation that the Government is somehow facilitating this is an outrageous assertion. We are facilitating no carriage of weapons to Israel or any other part of the world. That company violated Irish law, essentially. The Minister for Transport and his Department are endeavouring to get precise information from the Belgian Government and the company. No one here is facilitating any transfer of weaponry through our airspace. Under the Chicago Convention, people are obliged to seek permission from the country-----

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