Thursday, June 25, 2009

Amnesty claims rendition committee has met only once

A cabinet sub-committee set up to review the law on searching suspected rendition flights at Shannon Airport has met just once in the past eight months, a report being published by Amnesty International tomorrow claims.

The Irish Independent today says that the report calls into question the Government's commitment to dealing with accusations that Shannon has been used as a staging area or getaway route for CIA agents carrying out kidnapping operations.

It will say the members on the sub-committee -- Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern, Transport Minister Noel Dempsey, Communications Minister Eamon Ryan and Environment Minister John Gormley -- have held only one session to discuss the matter since it was formed last November.