Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cruise liner ships that have visited and berthed in the ports around Ireland in each of the past ten years; if his Department places restrictions on the number that can visit each port; the number that are permitted to land and berth in each port on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31319/23]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The number of cruise ships that have visited and berthed in Ireland in the last ten years is set out in the following table.

Further statistics in relation to cruise are available on the CSO website at: data.cso.ie/

My department places no restrictions on the number of cruise ships that can visits ports in Ireland. Where there will be more than twelve ship calls on an annual basis to an individual port facility, the port facility must be certified in compliance with the applicable requirements of SOLAS Ch. XI-2, the International Code for the Security of Ships and of Port Facilities (ISPS Code) and Regulation 725/2004/EC.

Cruise visits to ports are a day-to-day operational matter for the individual port companies, with commercial arrangements being made directly between the port company and the cruise company. Enquiries in relation to whether a port can accommodate a particular cruise ship visit must be made directly by the cruise company to the individual port concerned.

The schedules for upcoming cruise visits are published on the individual port websites.