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Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2004)

David Norris: All Members of the House will take the matter I wish to raise seriously. I have asked the Leader on numerous occasions in recent months to provide information about a Gulfstream jet that has been landing at Shannon Airport and last week she kindly furnished me with the information she had succeeded in getting. I read it carefully; it consists of a report from The Sunday Business Post and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2004)

David Norris: ——but by 24 November he had to acknowledge three landings under the new call sign.

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Nov 2004)

David Norris: I am not debating. I am asking a question and I want the Leader to get answers to this issue. The Government has repeatedly made a weak case to the effect that it had no information concerning the aircraft being used for these illicit purposes. Eventually it said that the embassy had been told by the United States authorities that it was not used and would not be used in future. Will the...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear. That would be very welcome.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: They are doing it themselves.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: Are we for sale?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: I thank the Leader for procuring the information.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: I never said that. I must correct the record. I stated that the Leader was having difficulty obtaining the information. I also made it quite clear that she made honest and valiant efforts to obtain it.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed). (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: I will, certainly.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: The Senator should name and shame.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: Would it be a help if we had a special section of the Order of Business for Senator Leyden since he is a regular performer?

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: Will the Leader ask the Government a number of specific questions in regard to the Gulfstream jet, whose registration number I quoted on previous occasions in the House? I understand that peace activists have logged this Gulfstream 5 aircraft landing at Shannon Airport 14 times. Is that an accurate number or is it more? Is the aircraft being used in a process known and endorsed by the CIA as...

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: A Syrian-born Canadian citizen, whom I have named previously as Mr. Maher Arar, was kidnapped in JFK Airport and then taken to Washington DC, after which — probably on this jet through Shannon Airport — he was taken to Syria and tortured. The American Government is now in court on this issue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: Can it be confirmed that this jet was used, that it landed at Shannon Airport and that, therefore, the Government is complicit in the violation of international law and the commission of serious war crimes?

Seanad: Order of Business. (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: The people are entitled to answers to these questions. Similar questions were raised in the other House yesterday to which the Government gave no answers. I honour the Leader for putting on the record of this House that she had failed to get answers to these questions. We are entitled to know if our airspace and facilities are being violated by the United States in the commission of...

Seanad: Visit of US Delegation. (25 Nov 2004)

David Norris: I will not be quietened. I hope the Congressmen take the message back to the United States but they are very welcome.

Seanad: Road Network: Motion. (24 Nov 2004)

David Norris: Are you sure? Senator Burke only said about three sentences and he had eight minutes.

Seanad: Road Network: Motion. (24 Nov 2004)

David Norris: No. He spoke for three.

Seanad: Road Network: Motion. (24 Nov 2004)

David Norris: We will compromise on that. This is a site of world importance. When Senator Kitt spoke about the shortest way from Galway to Dublin, I thought of James Joyce saying the shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead. It soon will be — we will have to go to England to look at photographs of it. It is extraordinary. It is as if the Egyptian Government decided to put a tramline through the Valley of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Nov 2004)

David Norris: Hear, hear.