Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-10
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I make the point generally that President Biden was of some assistance to Ireland in respect of Brexit and in the Good Friday Agreement. He has supported the Good Friday Agreement all his life, but particularly during Brexit. We were anxious to commemorate 100 years of diplomatic relations between the US and Ireland. That is a good thing. I am not anti-US generally. The Deputy may be but I am not. That said, I oppose what is happening in the Middle East. I do not believe the US should be arming Israel given the nature of warfare that Israel is carrying out in terms of the destruction of civilian infrastructure and the killing of innocent children, men and women.
We do not allow people to fly through airspace with weaponry. We have a legal framework, the Chicago Convention, which countries and companies are obliged to uphold. We do not have fighter jets. We do not have planes in the sky monitoring every plane that flies through. There is an impractical proposition implied in the Deputy's question that somehow we can physically enter the skies and by divine inspiration sort of-----

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Sitting date: 2024-10-10