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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: For the Deputy’s information, I will clarify something about pay. A general recruit coming out of the leaving certificate, on completion of training, will be on €38,000 in year 1, €39,000 in year 2 and €40,700 in year 3. I spoke about school-leaver cadets and graduates. I am giving this information for the sake of completeness, as it was not in the original...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: What I said was: “To this end, I can confirm that Defence Forces management is progressing the introduction of an interim time and attendance system on a pilot basis which will inform future systems.” For completeness-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: It has been a long day and the Deputy might not have caught every paragraph.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: I will explain it to the Deputy. Sorry, a Chathaoirligh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: In what way was it not a good encounter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: Does the Cathaoirleach mean in terms of the communication with the representative body?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: The Cathaoirleach said that the experience with the representative association was not a pleasant one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: A comprehensive written update on all 38 early actions was published on 23 March last. This included a detailed status update, in tabular form, for each of the 38 early actions and outlined what had been achieved. That was fully transparent and was made available publicly. We said that 95% of the early actions had been completed. There is a difference between the 38 early actions and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: Well it is 95% of 38, I was just making a point. That was the level of detail published on 23 March because the high-level action plan identified 38 early actions. Parallel to this, it provided the necessary building blocks to develop a detailed implementation plan and the establishment of the oversight group. I have no difficulty with the committee having an oversight role and access to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: I want to finish my contribution and then the Senator can contribute. It is not acceptable that I be interrupted in this way. I know people coming out of college and what they are getting. This is a good thing because we want to attract people into the Defence Forces. It needs to be acknowledged that these pay increases have improved matters again. We need to do more. Recently,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----the manifestation of the physical investment that has happened over the last while , and continues to happen. There are 120 capital projects under way in respect of our Defence Forces. That is open; people can see it. I have no difficulty with the committee meeting people in every barracks who will outline for the members the capital projects that are either at design stage or other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: It is a question of industrial relations. To be fair to the representative bodies, they have legitimate issues. We will have to engage with them further.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy asked about the IRG terms of reference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: There are 30 who will be going into a class next week. Approximately every two years there is a new class of non-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: They are going on a course to become officers, yes. I think that is biannual. I can check that for the Deputy and get the precise details, but there is progression.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: Yes. The other point is that there are figures for length of experience and previous tours and so on. Quite a number with experience of previous tours are on the current UNIFIL and UNDOF missions. I normally have those figures when I am seeing them off. I was with Senator Wilson recently. I hope he does not mind me saying that his son is serving. Ordinarily in the speech we outline the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: Is the Deputy asking about this year's budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: When was this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)
Micheál Martin: When was the article written?