I honestly believe that most people in this country will see the performance of An Taoiseach, Simon Harris, after he left the meeting in Washington with Joe Biden yesterday as woeful, pitiful and feeble. Anyone who was given an opportunity to say to Joe Biden to stop arming Israel would use it. Emmanuel Macron has done so. What is the problem with our Taoiseach not doing so? This morning, the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza has been ordered to evacuate by the Israelis. No doubt they can order and threaten that through use of the munitions supplied by the US and flown over our airspace. In April, the Tánaiste told me to stop muddying the waters when I questioned him on this. Will he now clarify the waters? Are we still allowing flights over sovereign Irish territory that are carrying munitions to Israel? What are we going to do to intervene? The Tánaiste's favourite publication, The Ditch, stated that this week more flights carrying munitions have gone over our sovereign space from the US to Israel. Will he give clarity on this? If not today, when can he tell us what he will do to stop it happening?

I wish to say something before the Tánaiste comes in. This is the second Deputy to criticise the Taoiseach. The Taoiseach will be here next week I suspect. If Members have matters to confront him with, they are more than welcome to do so then. I think it would be much better to voice that criticism to him directly than to ask somebody else to answer for his actions.

I am not asking him to answer for his actions. I just want him to answer about the sovereign airspace. I just made that comment.

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-----

That is not my implication. That is not my question.

It clearly is, because we cannot physically------

What is the Government going to do about it?

We cannot physically-----

I do not expect you to fly up to the sky. Surely there is some legal apparatus we can use.

The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the Department of Transport are responsible for that area because it is civilian overflight. As the Deputy knows, anyone wanting to fly weaponry through Irish sovereign airspace must seek permission.

What happens if they do not?

We are out of time now.

If they do not, they are violating our legal framework. In the first instance, the Department is trying to ascertain from the Belgian Government and from the company involved the full details on this and then deal with the company subsequently.