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Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: I have no difficulty with attending the committee meeting to discuss the matter further.

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: I will ask him. The Deputy will appreciate that he is busy at present but if the request is made, I will certainly ask him.

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: We will communicate that request to Lieutenant General Nash. Deputy Ó Snodaigh indicated that he intended to oppose the motion because he did not agree with battle groups. This is not a battle group in the classic sense of the word. We are part of the Nordic battle group. This is a peace support operation which is being carried out for humanitarian reasons. Incidentally, of all the...

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: I am giving them that assurance.

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: I am giving all those assurances.

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: The Deputy must wait a minute. He was not here for the debate. Lieutenant General Nash will not deploy——

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: The Deputy must have been invisible, because I did not see him all day.

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: Lieutenant General Nash will not deploy unless all the key enablers are in place.

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: At a meeting of Defence Ministers in Brussels last Monday week I pleaded with my colleagues to put the key enablers in place. We have less than 1% of the population of Europe but we are supplying approximately 12% of the troops for this mission. Someone asked me why we are not supplying air assets. We would gladly supply them if we had them, but the air assets we have do not have the range...

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: No.

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: There is a lot of diplomatic activity going on at the moment with a view to obtaining what is still needed to launch the mission. As we have a sufficient commitment of troops, fortunately, we do not need any more.

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (Resumed) (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: The Deputy should not believe all he reads in the papers.

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the despatch, pursuant to section 2 of the Defence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1960, as applied by the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006, of a contingent of the Permanent Defence Force for service with the EU military operation named "EUFOR TCHAD/RCA", established under the authority of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1778 (2007), including headquarter...

Despatch of Defence Forces Personnel: Motion (28 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: We have to meet such costs ourselves. This is an EU-led operation. If it were a UN-led operation, the UN would meet those costs.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the table below: Date Total Employed Total Permanent Total Temporary Total Contracted 31 October 2007 *435 427 4 4 31 October 2002 *467 463 Nil 4 **This figure represents the total number of officers serving in my Department, including those officers who are worksharing, those who are in temporary employment and those who are working...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the amount spent on travel in my Department is set out in the tables below: Department Staff Year Business Class Economy Class First Class Total â'¬ â'¬ â'¬ â'¬ 2004 48,279 17,065 24,372 89,715 2005 14,857 17,686 NIL 32,543 2006 18,413 33,542 NIL 51,955 2007 11,841 31,176 NIL 43,017 Defence Forces Personnel Year...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (27 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: The total amount spent by my Department to date in 2007 on standard and registered post and couriered documents is €517,091. This expenditure comprises the cost of such services for the Department's offices in Dublin and Galway, the Defence Forces and the Civil Defence Board in Roscrea. A breakdown of the expenditure is not readily available.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: Civil Service posts at the levels of Assistant Secretary and Deputy Secretary are covered by a scheme of performance related awards. The operation of the scheme is overseen by the Committee for Performance Awards. Details of awards to individual officers under the performance related scheme are not disclosed on the basis that they are confidential to the officer concerned. However I can...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: The information requested by the Deputy is outlined in the table hereunder: Year Transferred Retired Resigned 2003 10 7 2 2004 12 5 3 2005 10 13 2 2006 32 7 3 2007 44 9 2

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (27 Nov 2007)

Willie O'Dea: I am not aware of any allegations of victimisation for whistleblowing that have been reported to my Department by Departmental staff since 1 January 2007.