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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces (Evidence) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2022)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 5: In page 54, line 11, after “conviction” to insert “by court-martial”. This relates to Part 8 - offences and penalties. The first one of those is this section. This is a minor drafting amendment to clarify that the reference to conviction in this section is to a conviction by a court-martial. The revised text is in line with the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces (Evidence) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2022)

Simon Coveney: I move amendment No. 6: In page 61, after line 34, to insert the following: “Code of practice 81.(1) The provost marshal shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of this section and following consultation with the Director of FSI, prepare for submission to the Minister a draft code of practice for the purposes of providing practical guidance as to the procedures...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces (Evidence) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2022)

Simon Coveney: That is a very fair question. Once this legislation is passed and commenced, a code of practice will be prepared under this section. It then has to be submitted to me, as the Minister, for approval. We will make sure that it is consistent with other codes of practice. I expect there will be consultation on that, as well, to make sure that consistency is there. The main source of guidance...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces (Evidence) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2022)

Simon Coveney: I thank the committee for its very efficient consideration of the Bill. The only amendments were technical ones on which we got advice from the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to try to improve the Bill and ensure there is absolute consistency with the 2014 legislation that applies to the criminal justice system. There will be an opportunity for final consideration on Report Stage. ...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces (Evidence) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (12 Apr 2022)

Simon Coveney: I am happy to answer those questions given how efficient the committee was in moving through the Bill. We have a few minutes. On the Deputy's first question, the Bill provides for significant enhancement of the powers of the military police in relation to the collection of evidence to assist their investigations. It was not possible, however, to address all issues relating to the power...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Simon Coveney: The remuneration of directly employed staff in my Department is sanctioned by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in line with Government policy. There are currently 2 officers within the Department of Foreign Affairs who earn less than €12.30 per hour on the basis of a net 37 hour week. These officers operate as Cleaners at point 1 of the Civil Service PPC scale.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undefined (26 Apr 2022)

Simon Coveney: My Department is responsible for citizenship by descent through the Foreign Births Register under the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended. The processing of Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) has resumed and will be gradually scaling up in line with the recruitment of additional resources. Due to the complex nature of the FBR process, the large increase in applications...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (26 Apr 2022)

Simon Coveney: With regard to the specific application about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service has returned the requested documents to the applicant's parents.