Results 5,481-5,500 of 50,136 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I am equally unhappy with the slow progress there and the nature of the trial process and I have met the Lebanese minister for foreign affairs on a number of occasions now, most recently in Barcelona at a European ministerial exchange on the Middle East more generally. I had a bilateral with him there, previous bilaterals at the UN General Assembly, UNGA, and indeed, I went to Lebanon to...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: Yes we should, and also critically with the United Nations, the Secretary-General and other key persons, which we have done in the late Seán Rooney's case and more generally on force protection in respect of DFOMs, denials of freedom of movement, that still occur in Lebanon.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I have. There has been a scaling back. We discussed this at the time, not here in the committee but with the military leadership, and there is a desire generally that we would scale back - if not end - the entire provision. Given numbers and so on, we need to consider the optimum deployment of the Defence Forces and as the Deputy has correctly pointed out, the requirement now at Portlaoise...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: The Deputy's point is well made. There was a time when prison officers were targets and were shot. In one case that we know of, a prison officer lost his life. Therefore, there was a time when it was needed. The number of high-security prisoners is now in single digits and they are of a certain age and so forth, so the necessity that was once there is no longer required. Therefore, the...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: It actually is.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: Was it?
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I will have news on that front shortly.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: If the Deputy has any cases in mind, he could send them on to us. There should not be delays on that. We should just get it done quickly.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I will come back on that.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: On the Deputy's general comments, I appreciate the positive observations on patrol duty allowance. The starting pay, particularly for those who have less than three years of service, is quite a dramatic uplift, as the Deputy describes it. The C-295 will be coming on target to be delivered to us in 2025. The ongoing issue would be recruitment and retention. On the retirement front, we have...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I have asked the Chief of Staff to progress and get on with it.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I was taken on a tour of those houses to see my-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: -----handiwork and to translate the Dáil announcement. Genuinely, some of these buildings are in quite considerable disrepair while some are not. There will be a phased refurbishment of them. We should just go ahead and do it, which we are. I have given a direction for that to be done. Approximately 77 vacant residential-type properties are under the remit of the Department. To...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: It is probably worth a return visit. It will cost €17 million when all of it is completed. The development of gymnasium works, which we think is very important, at Finner Camp, Casement Aerodrome, Haulbowline naval base and Renmore Barracks will cost €16.4 million. The development of the Casement military medical facility will cost €15.4 million to cover relocation...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: It would not be my forte at all. I have a distinctive approach to all these things. Can you imagine psychometric testing for entry to Dáil Éireann? Where would you begin?
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I am not an expert on it. I value both Deputies' opinions. They have given a very useful insight.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: It could also be off-putting to someone. The problem with it originally in respect of the navy was that it was more or less the first thing people got online. They had to do the test first before they went any further. I want to draw people in. Let us bring people in. As the Chief of Staff said, let us try to make people match fit as opposed to-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I did not quite say that. I know the Deputy was heading there anyway.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: Did the Deputy say long service increments?