Military Aircraft
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-10
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Catherine Connolly (IND), Galway West

You cannot find out if you do not look or inspect or you rely on reassurances from an American state that is backing Israel to the core. The last figure I have is that the US has spent €17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last October. This figure is from the Costs of War project by the Watson Institute at Brown University, released last Monday. The Tánaiste is telling me he has received reassurances and I am conflating things. I am conflating nothing. In my experience and from what I have read and learned, military planes carrying weapons are going through Shannon. They are either landing or going through our airspace. The Government has not checked so it does not know. How does the Tánaiste think the planes are getting to carry out the war in Israel and drop the bombs? What airspace are they using if they are not using Ireland's and if they are not landing in Ireland? The Tánaiste said earlier that they stop to refuel. There is an obligation and a duty on us not to be complicit in genocide, and we are complicit in genocide if we do not examine and inspect the planes.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-10