Written answers
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Department of Defence
National Security
Liam Quaide (Cork East, Social Democrats)
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231. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 7 October 2025, the number of patrols by both Naval Service assets and Air Corps maritime patrol aircraft, by month, since February 2022, in tabular form. [55131/25]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The tables below detail the number of Naval Service and Air Corps maritime patrols conducted in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to the end of August 2025.
Naval Service Patrols
2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 (as of end August) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of patrols | No. of patrols | No. of patrols | No. of patrols | |
| January | 60 | 67 | 31 | 48 |
| February | 64 | 42 | 29 | 30 |
| March | 62 | 59 | 31 | 45 |
| April | 62 | 28 | 30 | 44 |
| May | 70 | 48 | 31 | 45 |
| June | 67 | 46 | 30 | 44 |
| July | 84 | 73 | 42 | 45 |
| August | 60 | 35 | 45 | 48 |
| September | 81 | 30 | 38 | N/A |
| October | 60 | 31 | 37 | N/A |
| November | 66 | 30 | 37 | N/A |
| December | 54 | 31 | 47 | N/A |
790 | 520 | 428 | 349 |
2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 (as of end August) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of patrols | No. of patrols | No. of patrols | No. of patrols | |
| January | 14 | 7 | 5 | 14 |
| February | 15 | 10 | 5 | 9 |
| March | 9 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| April | 5 | 6 | 5 | 14 |
| May | 5 | 7 | 15 | 13 |
| June | 12 | 3 | 9 | 16 |
| July | 7 | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| August | 0 | 4 | 13 | 17 |
| September | 0 | 3 | 10 | N/A |
| October | 10 | 1 | 12 | N/A |
| November | 13 | 4 | 16 | N/A |
| December | 7 | 2 | 7 | N/A |
97 | 54 | 112 | 119 |
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