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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: How many do we have now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: How many vehicles did the unit have last year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: What was the total number of vehicles last year and what is the total number of vehicles this year? I know some of the vehicles have been retired.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: There are actually fewer than there were last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: Is that due to budgetary issues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: I am very focused on making sure that An Garda Síochána has the vehicles that it needs. When Ms Gunne says she is growing the fleet, unfortunately there is a decline from last year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: What does An Garda Síochána need? What could we do to support it? What could we ask the Minister for justice to do to support it in order to make sure that we are not seeing decreases year-on-year but, rather, that we are seeing increases in both the numbers and the vehicles?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: What was given last year was that there would 150 additional. Was the target the number we had last year plus 150?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: How many did we have last year?
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Energy Rating (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes retrofitted by Fingal County Council since 2021; the number targeted for 2025; if Fingal County Council is on track to meet its share of the national retrofitting target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53463/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Energy Rating (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes retrofitted to a B2 BER standard to date under the Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme; the projected number for 2025; and the progress made towards the national target of 36,500 local authority retrofits by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53462/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of drone detections recorded since the installation of anti-drone technology at Dublin Airport in July 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53952/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of occasions on which Dublin Airport has had to suspend operations due to drone sightings since the system became operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53953/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if anti-drone technology been installed at other Irish airports such as Cork, Shannon, Knock or Belfast; if so, to provide details of the locations and operational status; if not, the timeline for the roll-out of anti-drone systems at other airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53954/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of individuals that have been prosecuted for flying drones within restricted zones around Dublin, Cork, Shannon and Knock airports since 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53955/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if further legislative changes are being considered to strengthen enforcement around drone activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53956/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if anyone has been prosecuted for breaching laws of flying drones near Dublin, Shannon and Knock airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53957/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the specific measures the IAA is taking to prevent drone incursions at airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53958/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the IAA is involved in real-time monitoring or enforcement regarding drone activity; the way in which it is coordinating with An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53959/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (8 Oct 2025)
Grace Boland: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual running cost of the anti-drone system currently in place at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53960/25]