Safety of foreign aircraft overflying Ireland
Kavanagh asked whether Ireland coordinated with other countries to ensure safe aircraft overflying the State. The Minister said such incidents would be taken seriously and the concern was worth keeping in mind.
Have any discussions taken place between the Department of Tourism and Transport and other countries whose planes overfly this country to ensure that, although they are not landing here, the safety checks that we require are equally as stringently observed by those countries? When one recalls the Lockerbie crash, had that plane taken off half an hour earlier it could have been over Ireland when it crashed. Will the Minister assure us that steps will be taken to ensure that planes overflying this country are totally safe, if that is possible?
