Brendan Ryan (Labour)

We spent years trying to obtain information from the Department of Transport on what the airplanes were doing and it refused to provide it. Every single concession was extracted slowly and painfully from the Government. Finally, when the Government had to accept the airplanes had done what we had said they were doing, and that they had been assisted on their way to and from the locations of their awful activities by Ireland, it said there were no prisoners on board. We never said there were; we said we are complicit through our tolerance of their presence——