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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (26 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is eligible to receive fuel allowance. [45446/17]

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If we could sit on Mondays and Fridays-----

Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tuesday's business shall be No. 8, motion re parliamentary questions rota change; No. 19, statements on Catalonia; and No. 4, Finance Bill 2017 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. Private Members' Business shall be No. 140, motion re national housing emergency selected by the Social Democrats-Green Party group. Wednesday's business shall be No. 4, Finance Bill 2017 - Second Stage...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Claims Agency (24 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 437. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of years the State Claims Agency has been auditing the Defence Forces. [44987/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (24 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 438. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if members of the Defence Forces have been deployed to the Baltic states in the past year; and his plans to dispatch military personnel to the Baltic region. [44991/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who requires a bone scan cannot receive the scan due to the fact the DXA machine which carries this out in St. Vincent's Hospital is broken which means that anyone under 21 years of age cannot get the scan carried out; when this machine will be fixed; and if this person can have the required scan carried out elsewhere....

Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I agree with both Deputies who have spoken on this. If the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, is appointed or succeeds in his nomination, does he resign his commission? If not, will he still be bound by departmental guidelines, policies and instructions? We were told before the summer that the pressure for us to move a motion signing up to Operation Sophia...

Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is he still answerable?

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 36. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans on aligning the Defence Forces industrial relations with that of the initial findings of the Garda Síochána working group which was recently approved by Cabinet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44021/17]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question relates to the Minister of State's position on the findings of the senior Garda management report on industrial relations and whether it has implications in regard to the Defence Forces. If the proposals of Garda senior management were adopted by the Defence Forces, does he believe it would be contrary to the European court decision regarding the right to representation?

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have raised the issue before and I will not labour it but what is the fear of the Defence Forces organisations having full representational rights and being given the full ability to discuss pay and conditions in talks with their employer, even if it without the right to strike? Both the representative organisations which I met during the recent months are not looking for full trade union...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister of State said that they were accorded the same rights of participation as other trade unions, but that was not the case. Does the Minister of State agree that many of the issues they raised were ignored while side deals were being made with other unions at those pay talks? RACO and PDFORRA continue to seek full rights and access at all levels that a trade union organisation...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 35. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has considered the reintroduction of the fixed period promotion and service commitment scheme which were successful initiatives up to their withdrawal by his Department in 2013.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44023/17]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Given the major shortfalls emerging in the Defence Forces at certain grades, will the Minister of State consider the reintroduction of at least one mechanism that worked in the past, namely, the fixed period promotion and service commitment scheme, which was done away with by the Department in 2013?

Other Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I understand what happened in the past but given the crisis at certain levels and in certain sections of the Defence Forces in terms of officers, particularly in certain key areas, surely the Minister of State will look again at reintroducing a system that worked and may help stop the flow of officers into the private sector through being either head hunted or believing there is no future for...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It will be too late by the time the Public Service Pay Commission or anybody else produces a report into this and the report is considered to address serious shortfalls we have seen in terms of the ability of the Air Corps to carry out its duties. It is not just the Air Corps. Does the Minister of State not accept that the Defence Forces are totally different to the vast majority of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Investigations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 29. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a commission of investigation into serious allegations of an ineffective or non-existent health and safety regime in the Air Corps will be established in view of the fact that a person (details supplied) stated in their report that the allegations made by the three whistleblowers could not be adequately dealt with in the type of informal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Investigations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Given that the Minister of State has now received the O'Toole investigation report, he is clearly attempting to fudge the issue as the report clearly states that the issues raised by the whistleblowers could not be adequately addressed. In light of this, will the Minister of State now set up an inquiry into the virtually non-existent health and safety regime in the Air Corps? In the past...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Investigations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The courts should not prevent the State or indeed the Minister of State from investigating what we have been discussing here and what has been brought before the courts by a small number of current and former officers. Let me set the scene: a dilapidated mechanics workshop; oil everywhere; carcinogenic chemicals spilt on the floor and around the sink; highly dangerous long-life chemicals...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Investigations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Earlier the Minister of State called the reviewer in question incompetent for not having raised issues with him. Whatever the reviewer's remit, he seems to have not deemed himself competent to carry out the work and the Minister of State seems to have agreed as no extension or broadening of that remit was sought. If I were to say to the Minister of State that 100 premature deaths were...