Results 7,101-7,120 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: On 17 January 2013, the Council of the European Union established the European Union training mission, EUTM Mali, which will provide military training and advice to the Malian armed forces to improve their military capacity and their effectiveness in guaranteeing the country's territorial integrity. Training will also be provided in international humanitarian law and the protection of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: The Deputy has an extraordinary view of the world. Anyone who watched what happened in Mali, particularly northern Mali, where barbaric atrocities were carried out on the local people, people were herded into stadiums with their arms chopped off and women were made to cover their heads, threatened and not allowed to engage in normal life, would recognise that there was a major problem in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: I presume the Deputy regarded the chopping off of people's arms as an appropriate thing to continue happening, which is what would have happened without the French intervention.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Policy (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: I am of the view that the preparation for a new White Paper on Defence will benefit greatly from an informed and wide-ranging debate on Ireland’s defence policy. To that end I decided to initiate the preparation of a Green Paper on Defence. When published, the Green Paper will initiate and inform a broad consultative process as part of the development of a new White Paper. A draft...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: The matter is being approached in a particular manner, in the context of Departments being requested to achieve certain savings. The outcome of the discussions with regard to the individual Departments and the direct negotiations that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is engaged in must be awaited.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Reserve (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: In regard to the total amount allocated to the Reserve Defence Force each year from 2005 to 2012, I propose to circulate a tabular statement setting out the information requested. With regard to the future of the Reserve Defence Force, the Deputy will be aware that a major re-organisation is currently underway. This re-organisation is a key element of the response to the findings and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Reserve (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: The reduction in the allocation to the Reserve Defence Force over the period in question was addressed in the value for money report. The key variable in determining the level of training costs over the period 2006 to 2009, for example, was the uptake of both paid and unpaid training by members of the Reserve. As the uptake of training was on a voluntary basis, associated costs were demand...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: Remuneration for the Permanent Defence Force in 2012 amounted to €459.76 million. This consisted of €424.76 million on pay and €35 million on allowances. An additional €3.5 million in remuneration for the Reserve Defence Force was also expended in 2012. As the Deputy is aware, talks on an extension to the Public Service Agreement 2010–2014 began last...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: I give the Deputy every assurance that I have great respect for the fantastic achievements in recent years made within the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces in the areas of modernisation, effecting change and effecting substantial cost savings, which are evident right across the board. The Department of Defence is a model for public service reform that could well be replicated in...
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: Measurement of what?
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: Does the Deputy even understand it?
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: The Deputy is making a disgrace to this House.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: The Deputy is making a disgrace to this House.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: This is not the Gaiety Theatre. He is making a disgrace of the House.
- Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: I have never seen such a sad group of-----
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: We are tidying his mess.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: We are tidying up Deputy Martin's mess. He has some brass neck.
- Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: Where is the Deputy's cap?
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Presidency Priorities (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 11 and 19 together. Since the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, now conducts the Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy assisted by the European External Action Service. T he EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy forms an integral part of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Green Paper on Defence (7 Feb 2013)
Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12, 37 and 42 together. I am of the view that the preparation for a new White Paper on Defence will benefit greatly from an informed and wide-ranging debate on Ireland’s defence policy. To that end I decided to initiate the preparation of a Green Paper on Defence. When published, the Green Paper will initiate and inform a broad consultative process as...