Providing a suitable jet for the Taoiseach should not be a flight of fancy
The government Learjet. Picture by Defence Forces
Sinead Ryan
An embarrassing incident involving an Air Corps plane scheduled to fly Taoiseach Micheál Martin from Brussels was the latest in a series of failures by the Department of Defence to properly attend to its duties involving Government personnel carrying out State business abroad.
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