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Other Questions: Military Medals (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: This specially commissioned Jadotville medal will be attached to the unit citation that was presented in September 2016. As Minister of State with responsibility for defence, I decided - in conjunction with the former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny - to award medals to all the men of A company in recognition of the significance of their actions at Jadotville. We made this decision on the...

Other Questions: Military Medals (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Absolutely. A team from the Department of Defence and the military has commissioned the medal and is working on the ceremony. It will probably be late September or October before we have a date set for the ceremony. I intend that it will be similar to the event that was held in Athlone when the citation was presented. It will be a day for the surviving members and the families of the...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 34, 35, 55 and 68 together. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, UNDOF, was established on 31 May 1974 under United Nations Security Council Resolution 350 (1974) following the agreed disengagement of the Israeli and Syrian forces in the Golan Heights in May 1974. UNDOF was established to maintain the ceasefire between Israel and Syria, to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel Data (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I am glad the Deputy was listening to me on "Drive Time" yesterday evening. He omitted to say that I doubled the budget last year for investment in barracks and specifically in areas of accommodation. I am very disappointed that he only heard what suited him and his negative talk about the Defence Forces of the last months. Not one member of the Defence Forces has ever come to me and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel Data (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: If the Deputy listens to me maybe------

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel Data (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Not one of them ever approached me to say there was no hot water or broken urinals or damp on the walls or any of that. If they have an issue with their accommodation, they are welcome to address it to me. I am open and transparent and have no issue whatsoever.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel Data (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I am in this position for the past 12 months. I doubled the budget in that time. I do not think that is bad going.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Deputy for his question. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade has responsibility for the use of Shannon Airport by foreign military aircraft and for the granting of permission for overflights by foreign military aircraft. The Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána have primary responsibility for the internal security of the State. Among the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I wish to inform the Deputy that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has primary responsibility for overflights and landings of foreign military aircraft. This has been facilitated for 50 years or more. I presume that when the Deputy speaks about what has happened in Iraq and whatever is on board the planes, he is aware that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: That would be a matter for An Garda Síochána. We are called upon as aid to the civil power by An Garda Síochána when we are required to provide a service at Shannon Airport. As I have stated, we have provided a service on 167 occasions since 1 January 2017. It is not my area of responsibility. It is a matter for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which has...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: International Terrorism (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: The Defence Forces provide, on request, support to aid the civil power on an ongoing and contingent basis. An Garda Síochána can request a broad range of supports from the Defence Forces, including the services of explosive ordnance disposal teams and the Army Ranger Wing. The Deputy spoke about transportation of military personnel. One of the reasons we have rotary...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel Data (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Depending on rank, the annual leave entitlement for officers varies from 31 to 43 days and for non-commissioned officers and privates from 28 to 30 days. Non-commissioned officers or privates filling appointments as instrumentalists in the establishments of the Defence Forces School of Music may be granted 31 days annual leave and members of the Naval Service serving afloat may be granted...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel Data (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I am not sure whether the Deputy is aware that PDFORRA brought a claim within the provisions of the conciliation and arbitration scheme. Discussions within the scheme are confidential. In addition, the matter is now subject to legal proceedings. It would be totally inappropriate for me to comment on these cases. However, as the Deputy will be aware, it remains open to PDFORRA, under the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Some of these cases are under litigation. I will leave that at that. The Deputy is being unfair in making the accusation that nothing has been done here. On numerous occasions in reply to written and oral parliamentary questions and in Topical Issue debates, I have given her the full detail of the Health and Safety Authority, HSA, report that has been carried out, the number of visits the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: -----that the HSA-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: It is unfair of the Deputy to make an accusation that-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: -----there has been no action on this. She is-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: It reminds me of some-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: She is telling untruths. It is beneath her to do that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Health and Safety Inspections (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: As I indicated to the Deputy in my letter of 17 May 2017 and my reply to Question No. 2278 on 20 June 2017, I was advised by the military authorities that there was a report on measuring carbon monoxide fumes from aircraft compiled by Forbairt in 1995 and a further report on monitoring air contaminants in workshops in 1997, which was also compiled by Forbairt. Unfortunately, following an...