Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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212. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of the presence of An Garda Síochána at Shannon Airport protecting civilian troop carriers and military planes of the United States of America, by month, in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1959/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The primary aim of deployment by An Garda Síochána at Shannon Airport is to protect the safety of passengers and other people working at and using the airport and its environs. It is not to provide protection for one type of aviation or another. I am informed by the Garda Authorities that the cost to An Garda Síochána of deployment at Shannon Airport was €1,319,720 in 2016 comprising salaries and other pay and non-pay related expenditure and the breakdown of that expenditure by month is set out in the following table.