Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of landings by UK military aircrafts at Dublin Airport and other national airports, indicating which airport for each month in each of the years 2015 and to date in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35254/16]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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The Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952 gives the Minister for Foreign Affairs primary responsibility for the regulation of activity by foreign military aircraft in Ireland. Permission must be sought in advance for landings by all foreign military aircraft and, if granted, is subject to strict conditions. These include stipulations that the aircraft must be unarmed, carry no arms, ammunition or explosives and must not engage in intelligence gathering, and that the flights in question must not form part of military exercises or operations.

My Department received seven requests for landings in Ireland by UK military aircraft in 2015. To date in 2016 my Department has received twenty requests for landings in Ireland by UK military aircraft, eleven of which were for the Red Arrows participation in the Bray Air Show.

Details of all requests for landings in the State by UK military aircraft in the period referred to are set out below.