Clare Daly
Question:184. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an M142 high mobility artillery rocket system, HIMARS, was delivered through Shannon Airport during August 2015. [44461/15]
View answerThursday, 10 December 2015
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The Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952 gives the Minister for Foreign Affairs primary responsibility for the regulation of activity by foreign military aircraft in Ireland.
Arrangements under which permission is granted for foreign military aircraft to land at Irish airports are governed by strict conditions, including the stipulation that the aircraft concerned must be unarmed and must carry no arms, ammunition or explosives. In line with these conditions, permission would not be granted for the landing of a foreign military aircraft transporting cargo of the type referred to by the Deputy.
If the Deputy has any information regarding the carriage of cargo of this type on a foreign military aircraft in contravention of these conditions I would ask her to provide it to my office.