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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 177. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost to provide the resources required for the staffing of C2 and service HQ structures. [49567/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 178. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost of funding the full implementation of the Working Time Directive welfare provisions (details supplied). [49568/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 383. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on medical evacuations to Ireland, of children who are paediatric patients from Gaza to which Government approval was secured in September 2024; and when the agreed intake of 30-children will be complete. [49570/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister will be aware that in April there was a lot of concern in the Cork city area about the amalgamation of units across four Garda stations into two units, in Carrigaline and Douglas, and Bishopstown and Ballincollig. Subsequently, and after many years of campaigning on behalf of the people of Cork, with public representatives and Cork Chamber of Commerce and so on, I am glad to see...

Education (Affordable School Uniforms) Bill 2025: First Stage (23 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The summer months should be a time of respite and enjoyment for families. However, for far too many families it is a time of stress and worry as they try to figure out how to get on top of back-to-school costs. The costs are absolutely enormous, as the research by the Irish League of Credit Unions and others have identified. Many families are getting into debt or struggling with their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (24 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This matter relates to issues that the communities in Mahon and Blackrock in the south-east of Cork city are experiencing. Fundamentally, the answers people are looking for is how and when the problem that exists is going to be fixed. They have not received such answers. When a resolution will be found is not something the communities in question have a sense of at this point. The main...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (24 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister of State. It is important that representations are made from the offices of the Minister of State and-or the Minister to Uisce Éireann in relation to this issue. I say this because the response seems to offer two potential causes for the malodour without necessarily nailing the company's colours to the mast as to whether it is the low water levels and the summer,...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: If the witnesses do not mind, I am going to ask some general questions to improve my understanding, and that of anyone listening in, of the Reserve Defence Force. My first question is fairly straightforward. Why do the witnesses believe the Reserve Defence Force matters?

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: To clarify, I know it is a very important function. I wish to give the witnesses the opportunity to explain what the Reserve Defence Force is doing and what it is capable of doing if it reaches its full potential.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: No, it was an excellent answer. I acknowledge the point about patriotism, and we see in other jurisdictions people talk about surge capacity but, whatever one chooses to call it, the ability to scale up is crucially important. I wish to come to the pay piece in a different way. I apologise; perhaps I should know this. The issue of the nature of decisions people make occurs to me. There...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I imagine it would be coming up if it was.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have to leave the meeting temporarily, but I will be back for the second round.

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I have one or two brief questions. It leads on from Senator Kyne's question. I apologise if this was touched upon. When there is, with any organisation, a smaller-than-desired number of people who will very likely be spread unevenly around the country, if you look at a map of the State, are there very particular and obvious gaps with regard to RDF capacity? The Commission on the Defence...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Okay. I have one final question. The witnesses talked a bit about the kinds of duties that are there with regard to working with the Defence Forces such as patient transit and all that kind of stuff. On the trajectory, there is an ambitious enough target. I think it is 3,800 in 2028. In order to achieve that, is there enough in expanding the incidence of the types of duties that are...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion (25 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: You are not going to run up against a ceiling with any of the types of duties that exist currently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I apologise for being late to the meeting, but I had a question in the Chamber. I thank UNRWA for the incredible work that is being done. Mr. Whyte has detailed in his statement the number of UNRWA staff who have been killed or injured and the circumstances under which they must be working. It is very important work. I might ask some questions about the situation on the ground, but I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes. I have two further questions for this round. I hope to come in with some other matters if we have a further round. UNRWA operates on the basis of a mandate that is renewable. In recent months, unfortunately, another UN-mandated deployment or mission, albeit a very different one, namely UNIFIL, has not had its mandate renewed for post 2027. Is there any fear on Mr. Whyte's part about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: One of the things I suppose I find hard to get my head around is the day-to-day existence of the typical staff of UNRWA. Maybe Mr. Whyte can clarify this. It is something I suppose I probably struggle to understand, but I imagine the vast majority of the staff are from Gaza. What proportion of them would be, either originally or currently, from outside of the Gaza area? I suppose travel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Since the dawn of human conflict, ever since there has been conflict and destruction, disease has almost always followed. On top of the direct injuries from bombings, the lack of food, the breakdown in water systems, sewage systems, etc., and the situations people are living in, it seems that the risk of the spread of disease is greatly heightened. I wonder if there is something Mr. Whyte...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Agreements (29 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to his meeting with the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Vieira, recently, whether the Irish Government's position on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement was discussed; and whether the programme for Government commitment to oppose the agreement was communicated to him. [41237/25]