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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: I am sure the Minister would be very eager for Government to support that club and also its rival club which is called the Wolfe Tones GAA club. Apparently, the rivalry between the two clubs can get as intense as any inter-parish rivalry when it comes to their championship.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: There is no Fine Gael club as far as I know, Chair. I just want to touch on the passport service. I recognise the huge pressure it has been under over the past few years. I acknowledge that the service last year was immensely improved on the previous year. I have had experience of this. Online renewals are virtually without hitch. The service is very quick, efficient and easy to use....

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: I get cases where people might be making a one-day or a three-day appointment. It is very different if I live in this city. That is something a person can do on their lunch break or take a couple of hours off work. If somebody is coming from the top end of County Derry or Donegal, that is a very different scenario. That is a full day of their lives taken out, if there is childminding or-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (1 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: The Minister is correct. When urgent cases are brought to the attention of Members of this House and we bring them to the Passport Office, officials there are exceptionally good and sympathetic in dealing with that. I am always wary of a service that involves a politician having to intervene and ask for it. There is nothing worse than failing to see a text message and next thing it is not...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: Under Standing Order 83(3)(b) I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current status of the stated intention to scrap the LÉ Eithne; if he will review the decision to scrap the vessel and instead put it to alternative uses, considering that this was the last such vessel built at Verolme dockyard in Cork and the other historical roles that this vessel was involved in; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (31 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a specific review of the oversight of the Immigrant Investor Programme in respect of premises (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4525/24]

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: If this were not so serious, the Minister of State's play on words would be entirely laughable. To suggest that the Government's amendment is simply some small linguistic textual changes to our motion is, as I said, laughable, but also inexcusable. The Sinn Féin motion calls very clearly on the Government to make a declaration of intent that it will join the South African case against...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: It is not agreed.

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: Changing "do" to "do not". We want to insert "reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of the brutal terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel on 7th October, 2023". That needs to be said and I think most Irish people would agree with that. Then we ask for the deletion of the words " call on Israel to immediately implement fully" and we say on a textual basis "reiterate its call on Israel to...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: I move: That Dáil Éireann: expresses its deepest concern at the continued deterioration of the situation in Gaza and the resulting catastrophic humanitarian disaster with over 25,000 killed, thousands missing, almost two million people displaced, and massive destruction of housing and vital infrastructure, including hospitals and education facilities; deeply deplores the major...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: The story of Ireland is a story of migration. Irish people have been forced to move to every corner of the world during periods of famine, hunger, conflict and poverty. Countries have been made richer because of the positive contribution that Irish emigrants, their children and grandchildren have made. Today our migration story has evolved. Thousands of our young people leave Ireland and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: I will potter along until the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach tells me to stop.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: I move to the functions and powers of the external oversight bodies. With the existing non-statutory body and this body that is to be established, how hands-on is it expected to be when it comes to recruitment and training? I note the Tánaiste has set out additional increased recruitment targets for this year. "Increased" is probably the wrong word. They are the same targets as for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: I thank Mr. Duffy for that. It was just to make a comment on that. Specifically, in respect of the working time directive, this committee has heard from numerous representative organisations and others that the working time directive is the key and the single most important thing we can do to address the retention crisis and in turn deal with the recruitment crisis the Defence Forces are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: Is there a resistance though to having the representative organisations, or one of them, represented on an ex officiobasis considering there is no greater player than the Department and the Department will be represented?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: Okay. It might be something we look at in our report, Acting Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: Okay, but I have one last question about head 8 and the chair. The IRG recommendations used language like, "No relationship with military organisations is vital" while also recommending that an ordinary member have experience with "an overseas Defence Force or defence department which has successfully undertaken significant transformation". I am trying to get a sense of the Minister and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: The wording in the IRG report is, "No relationship with military organisations is vital". Am I to take it the Department has withdraw the last two words and is saying the requirement is no relationship with military organisations full stop? That is an expansion, somewhat, of the IRG recommendations.