Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This question seeks from the Minister of State data on the number of times to date in 2016 that the Defence Forces were called on to perform aid to the civil power duties at Irish airports in respect of US military planes. I would expect most of those to have taken place in Shannon Airport, it being almost de factoa US military air base at this stage. Would the Minister of State be willing to take Shannon Airport under his auspices, as is the case with Baldonnel airport, such that we would not have to put questions in this way given the amount of traffic by the US military at Shannon Airport?

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