Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party)
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29. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will explain the basis upon which the USS Leyte Gulf, a guided missile cruiser, was docked in Cobh on 14 April 2014. [18628/14]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Visits from foreign naval vessels are a long-standing and common practice in Ireland and worldwide. Foreign naval vessels are granted permission to visit Irish ports on condition that they meet the necessary policy stipulations, which require that the vessels are not carrying nuclear weapons and are not engaged in a naval exercise. The vessel in question, which was in Ireland as part of a routine visit, was granted permission to dock in Ireland on the basis that it met these criteria.