Written answers
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Military Aircraft
Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of military aircraft that requested to land at an airport here in 2017; and the number that were granted permission to land, by month, country of origin and the airport they landed at. [9339/18]
Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of military aircraft that passed through Irish airspace without landing at an airport here in 2017, by month and country of origin. [9340/18]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 139 and 140 together.
The Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order gives the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade primary responsibility for the regulation of activity, both landing in the State and overflying the State, by foreign military aircraft. During 2017, my Department received 515 requests for landings by military aircraft at airports in Ireland. Of the 515 landing requests received, 1 was refused and 15 were cancelled.
During 2017, there were 1,749 overflights of Irish airspace by military aircraft in accordance with permissions granted. The details are set out in the tables below broken down as appropriate.
Landing Details 2017
Country | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total | Airports |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bahrain | 1 | 1 | 1 Shannon | |||||||||||
Belgium | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 Shannon | ||||||||||
Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 Shannon, 4 Dublin | ||||||
Czech | 1 | 1 | 1 Dublin | |||||||||||
Egypt | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 Shannon | |||||||||
EU | 1 | 1 | 1 Dublin | |||||||||||
France | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 35 | 17 Shannon, 11 Dublin, 1 Galway, 6 Cork | |
Germany | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 Shannon, 4 Dublin, 1 Casement | |||||||
Italy | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 Shannon, 2 Dublin | ||||||||
Jordan | 2 | 2 | 2 Shannon | |||||||||||
Monaco | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 Dublin, 1 Casement, 1 Cork | ||||||||
Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 Casement, 3 Cork | |||||||
Norway | 1 | 1 | 1 Casement | |||||||||||
Palestine Auth | 2 | 2 | 2 Shannon | |||||||||||
Poland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 Dublin | |||||||||
Slovenia | 1 | 1 | 1 Dublin | |||||||||||
Spain | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 Dublin | ||||||||||
Switzerland | 2 | 2 | 1 Shannon, 1 Knock | |||||||||||
Turkey | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 Dublin | ||||||||||
Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1 Shannon | |||||||||||
UAE | 2 | 2 | 2 Dublin | |||||||||||
United Kingdom | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 2 Shannon, 1 Dublin, 7 Casement, 1 Cork | ||||||
United States | 31 | 41 | 49 | 38 | 34 | 25 | 28 | 34 | 35 | 35 | 39 | 16 | 405 | 402 Shannon, 3 Casement |
Total | 40 | 48 | 57 | 51 | 43 | 40 | 34 | 41 | 44 | 48 | 51 | 18 | 515 |
Over flight details
Country | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Australia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||
Bahrain | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Belgium | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 21 | |||||
Bolivia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Brazil | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Cameroon | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Canada | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 | |||||
Czech | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||||
Colombia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Cyprus | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Egypt | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 19 | ||
France | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 42 |
Germany | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 53 |
Ghana | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Greece | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||||||||
Hungary | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||
India | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Italy | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 24 | ||||
Iran | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Iraq | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||
Ivory Coast | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Jordan | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 31 | ||
Lebanon | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Luxembourg | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Malaysia | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Mali | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Mexico | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||||
Nigeria | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Oman | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Pakistan | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||
Poland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
Slovak Rep | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 16 | |||
Spain | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
Switzerland | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||
Tunisia | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||
Turkey | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
Ukraine | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
UAE | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
United Kingdom | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||
United States | 92 | 98 | 71 | 85 | 102 | 129 | 150 | 175 | 156 | 190 | 106 | 66 | 1420 |
Vietnam | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Total | 106 | 112 | 97 | 109 | 122 | 170 | 174 | 211 | 211 | 225 | 137 | 75 | 1749 |
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