Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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489. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis for permission being granted to a United States of America military surveillance aircraft which spent hours over Ireland on 15 September 2015, and was permitted to make 13 overflights in August 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32982/15]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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This overflight took place under blanket permission which is granted for overflights by unarmed US military aircraft. The US Embassy provides my Department with post hoc monthly statistical returns on the total number of overflights by unarmed military aircraft. The figure of 13 relates to the total number of overflights by transport, passenger and refuelling aircraft and not to the aircraft specified by the Deputy.