Written answers
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Department of An Taoiseach
Overseas Visitors
11:00 pm
Deirdre Clune (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 138: To ask the Taoiseach the number of overseas visitors in each month since the introduction of the €10 travel tax in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32498/10]
John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Data on overseas travel to Ireland is published in the CSO's Overseas Travel release. These results are based on the CSO's Country of Residence Survey, which is carried out continuously at airports and ports in the Republic of Ireland. The results of the survey are expressed in terms of the number of "trips" rather than the number of "visitors" which was requested by the Deputy.
The travel tax was levied in respect of every departure of a passenger on an aircraft from an Irish airport on or after 30 March 2009. The most recently published figures are for June 2010. The next release of the Overseas Travel is scheduled for late November 2010 and will contain the figures for July, August and September.
The following table shows numbers of trips to Ireland classified by air and sea passengers, from March 2009 to June 2010.
| Table: Overseas Trips to Ireland by Mode of travel | |||
| Period | Trips to Ireland | Trips to Ireland | |
| Air | Sea | ||
| 2009 | |||
| March* | 532,800 | 487,500 | 45,300 |
| April | 607,800 | 535,200 | 72,600 |
| May | 657,500 | 573,900 | 83,600 |
| June | 636,600 | 555,200 | 81,400 |
| July | 759,600 | 648,600 | 111,100 |
| August | 823,100 | 667,400 | 155,700 |
| September | 594,600 | 517,400 | 77,200 |
| October | 551,300 | 485,500 | 65,900 |
| November | 421,200 | 388,900 | 32,200 |
| December | 473,600 | 419,600 | 54,000 |
| 2010 | |||
| January | 313,800 | 285,900 | 27,900 |
| February | 336,800 | 307,000 | 29,800 |
| March | 434,200 | 386,100 | 48,100 |
| April** | 438,900 | 339,100 | 99,800 |
| May** | 502,500 | 417,500 | 84,900 |
| June | 600,300 | 502,900 | 97,400 |
| Source: CSO Overseas Travel Survey. | |||
| *Travel tax was levied in respect of every departure of a passenger on an aircraft from an Irish airport on or after 30 March 2009. | |||
| **Extensive disruption occurred in April and early May due to closures of Irish airspace due to volcanic ash. |
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