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School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the opportunity to debate the issue of school transport but not the need to debate it in yet another autumn. The Minister will recall that when we raised this issue last year we were told to wait for a review of school transport, which at that stage had been ongoing for one and half years. It has now been ongoing for two and a half years and we still do not have it. All the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Current Issues Facing Members of the Defence Forces: Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: No, it is about school transport, which is equally as important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Current Issues Facing Members of the Defence Forces: Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: I apologise for interrupting. My questions relate primarily to the working time directive. It is a good segue. I was conscious reading the statement earlier that we are all aware of A Tale of Two Cities. What the committee has had over the past week is a tale of two virtually parallel worlds, one that was presented by the Department last week which was a tale of great progress,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Current Issues Facing Members of the Defence Forces: Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: I will only be out for perhaps ten minutes.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 168. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the target date by which he intends to achieve Level of Ambition 2 of the Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42646/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 88. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a tribunal of inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the complaints process in the Defence Forces into workplace issues will include in its terms of reference the examination of cultural issues within the Defence Forces and the treatment of those arising from having engaged in complaints procedures in the past. [42543/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 96. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his proposals to provide increased support for veterans' associations. [42544/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 117. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he intends to publish a general scheme of the Bill to apply the Working Time Directive to members of the Permanent Defence Forces; the timeframe for same; and if he intends to provide an allocation in Budget 2024 for the purpose of implementing the Working Time Directive. [42531/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 102. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will review the decision to reject a submission advocating in favour of awarding a military medal for gallantry to a person (details supplied). [42532/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the main capital acquisitions of the Defence Forces in 2023 and the associated costs; the proposed main acquisitions for 2024 and the estimated costs; and the primary acquisitions required under Level of Ambition 2 of the Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces. [42541/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the competent agency for providing personal security clearance in the State; if provision for such clearance is provided exclusively for those employed by the State or if it can be attained by private citizens; if, in the case of the latter, the manner in which Irish citizens seeking employment requiring European Union personal security...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of requests received for personal security clearance received from those not employed by a Government Department or body under the aegis of a Government Department; the number of which were subsequently directed to An Garda Síochána via the Department of Justice in each of the years 2019 to date, in tabular form, by...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagements that he has had with his European and international counterparts regarding ongoing political unrest in Niger; the number of Irish citizens who have registered their presence with his Department; if there is an Irish embassy outside of Niger accredited to that state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42679/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Strategies (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the strategy documents or reports currently governing the approach of his Department; those that are under review; those currently being formulated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42645/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 280. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the implementation of EU Regulation 2021/57 relating to the carrying or use of lead gunshot on or within 100 metres of wetlands; the primary or secondary legislation in Irish legislation enacting such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42640/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports available to individuals seeking to purchase log cabins as a primary residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42643/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 566. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a young child who suffered a complicated fracture at a sports ground in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, on Saturday, 23 September was left awaiting an ambulance from 12.29pm until 3.17pm; and his proposals to improve the service. [42109/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: 567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of calls to the National Ambulance Service in County Monaghan during 2023; the number therein in which an ambulance arrived within 15 minutes, over 15 minutes and within 30 minutes, over 30 minutes and within 45 minutes, over 45 minutes and within 60 minutes, over 60 minutes and within 90 minutes, over 90 minutes and within 120 minutes and over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Current Issues Facing Members of the Defence Forces: Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: I asked about the conciliation and arbitration scheme and the battle groups.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Current Issues Facing Members of the Defence Forces: Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (3 Oct 2023)

Matt Carthy: May I add to that? The Garda might be in a better position than RACO's members but we are dealing with a day on which there is industrial action. It is five years since the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland published its report. Part of the difficulty we see today is related to the failure to implement some of its recommended measures. It is now 18 months since the...