Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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43. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the detail of the ten permits issued by his Department for transport of munitions of war through Ireland en route to or from Kuwait and Qatar in August 2017 and the six permits for same between 4 and 12 September 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42144/17]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to Question no: 247 on 28th September and in particular to the tabular statement that accompanied the reply. The Tabular Statement gave details of the exemption applications processed for the period 1st June to 31st August 2017 (inclusive),  the date of the flight, the name of the aircraft operator, the location from which the aircraft were flying to and from and the cargo the aircraft were carrying that required the exemption permit.

For all exemption permit applications my Department seeks the views of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to foreign policy issues and the Department of Justice and Equality in relation to security issues. The IAA is consulted in relation to aviation safety issues for applications involving munitions that are also categorised as dangerous goods. If any of these bodies objects, an exemption will generally not be granted. A copy of the application is also sent to the Department of Defence for information.

In the specific cases referred to by the Deputy, no objections were raised to the applications and my Department issued permits on the basis that they were in compliance with the terms of the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order 1973.