Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 133: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of Gardaí attached to the Garda immigration unit at each airport; the airports here that do not have a full-time Garda immigration unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27152/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The following table shows the number of Immigration Officers working at approved airports throughout the country, on a full/part-time basis:

Members of An Garda Síochána who have been appointed as Immigration Officers in accordance with the provisions of Immigration Act, 2004, fulfil immigration control duties at ports which have been approved for the landing of non-nationals. Airports which are not approved for entry into the State for the purposes of Immigration Act, 2004, are monitored by members of An Garda Síochána in the relevant Garda Districts concerned. Provisions under the Air Navigation & Transports Acts, relating to the power of entry by members of An Garda Síochána to aerodromes, may be utilised for the purpose of undertaking such monitoring.