Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2026-04-22
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

Certainly, I would appreciate the opportunity for others in the Lower House, or the Dáil, as I would call it, to engage on this issue. That is the appropriate place for these issues to be addressed. However, this amendment is an attempt to address the lacuna that the Government has identified. It has told us and has put its hands in the air asking what to do in circumstances where these flights are transiting our airspace and where we cannot police our skies. I am trying to bring an arms embargo in relation to the transit of weapons to Israel that are being used in breach of international law but there is an existing arms embargo. It does beg the question as to whether we would see the same kind of response if we had munitions transiting to Russia via our airspace. Would the answer be there is nothing the Government can do? There was a question earlier about how we would do the inspections. This is frankly inadequate.

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Sitting date: 2026-04-22