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asked the Minister for Defence if he will state with reference to the civil jet operated by the Army Air Corps to transport Ministers and public officials, the total cost of such operations to date and the destinations to which the aeroplane has flown, indicating the number of times the craft has visited each destination.
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asked the Minister for Defence the number of journeys undertaken to date in the State's executive jet by (i) Ministers, Ministers of State and the former Parliamentary Secretaries and (ii) civil servants or other persons.
With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 33 and 34 together.
The number of air transport missions undertaken in the aircraft from February 1980 to 30 September 1981 was 128. The cost involved in this operation is estimated at £530,000. This figure is related to the number of hours flown by the aircraft — 431 — on these missions.
The destinations involved and the number of visits to each are as follows:—
Amsterdam (3), Athens (1), Belgrade (1), Birmingham (1), Bologna (2), Brussels (42), Cologne-Bonn (2), Copenhagen (3), Cork (5), Coventry (1), Eindhoven (2), Geneva (2), Hamburg (2), Hanover (1), London (9), Luxembourg (23), Maastrich (1), Madrid (1), Naples (1), Paris (10), Rome (3), Shannon (3), Stockholm (1), Strasbourg (3), Stuttgart (1), Venice (4).
One hundred and twenty-six missions involved Ministers or Ministers of State and two missions involved civil servants.
