Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the volume of seafarers that applied and were subsequently registered annually by his Departments Mercantile Marine Office in each of the past six years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40697/25]

Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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Individuals who wish to register on the Seafarer's Information System, managed by the Mercantile Marine Office (MMO) of my Department, do so by creating an online account on the system through a link on the Seafarers.ie website. Individuals do not apply to the MMO directly to be registered. The table below sets out the number of individuals who have registered on the system for each of the previous five years.

Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of ship inspections, by port, that were carried out annually by officials in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40698/25]

Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent)
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Ireland is a member of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control. The member state authorities of the Paris MoU carry out inspections on foreign flagged ships calling into the ports of the region. This ensures an effective 100% coverage of all ports and ships in the region. Each member authority of the Paris MoU is allocated an inspection commitment annually to ensure this full coverage. In Ireland's ports these ship inspections are carried out by surveyors of the Marine Survey Office of my Department. The table below sets out these inspections carried out in each port annually over the past five years.