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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: The primary function of training and education in the Defence Forces is to develop and maintain the capabilities necessary to enable it to fulfil the roles laid down by Government. The Defence Forces conduct training and education under four broad categories namely; leadership, skills, career and collective training. Leadership training is the medium through which the Defence Forces...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks Closures (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: My Department has been engaged in an ongoing programme of barrack consolidation since 1998. This programme has brought to 14 the number of barracks closed to date. The total receipts from disposal of installations and lands from 1998 to date amount to approximately €1 20 million. To date the sale has been completed of the following barracks - Clancy (Dublin), Castleblaney,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: The current strength, as of 31 May 2017, the latest date for which figures are available, of females in the Defence Forces is 568 (Whole Time Equivalents). This represents 6.2% of the total strength of the Defence Forces. Of these, a total of 131 are commissioned officers. I am advised that in the past five years, there has been 247 instances of promotion amongst female members of the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Following a Government decision on 12 May 2015, the Irish Naval Vessel, LE Eithne, was deployed to the Mediterranean on 16 May, 2015, to assist the Italian Authorities with the migrant crisis. Two further vessels were deployed, LE. Niamhand LE Samuel Beckett, and the deployment was completed on 29 November 2015. During the period May to November 2015, a total of 8,592 persons were rescued...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Search and Rescue Service Provision (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputywill be aware that the Defence Organisation provides a broad range of services in accordance with its primary security role while it also undertakes a diverse range of non-security-related tasks. With reference to search and rescue, since 2004 the Irish Coast Guard has overall responsibility for the provision of Search and Rescue services within the Irish search and rescue region....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I have been advised by the military authorities that to collate the figures requested by the Deputy would require a medical officer or officers to examine the medical files of all Defence Force personnel that travelled to malaria prone areas within the period of time specified. Due to the scope of the request and the demands it would place on already limited resources, I regret that it...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Emergency Planning (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Primary responsibility for the internal security of the State rests with the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána. As Chair of the Government task force on emergency planning, I am briefed at every meeting of the Government task force on the current security threat assessments, including those from potential domestic and international terrorism. The task...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Deputy Murphy caught Sinn Féin out before.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Outrageous behaviour.

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves, pursuant to section 2 of the Defence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1960, as applied by section 2 of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006, the deployment of a contingent of the Permanent Defence Force to serve as part of EUNAVFOR MED - Operation Sophia, and in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2312 (2016) and UN Security Council...

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I mean finishing the debate tonight within the 80 minutes allocated.

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Yes.

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Okay.

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: No bother. It was worth asking. I know that others might have to go to bed early, but I am normally-----

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I have great respect for the staff of the Houses. I understand it having been Government Chief Whip for five years. The motion has been placed on the Order Paper for Dáil Éireann-----

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I thank Deputy Mick Wallace for his support.

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Earlier this year, following discussions with the Defence Forces general staff, I asked the Deputy Chief of Staff and the Naval Service Flag Officer to visit the headquarters for Operation Sophia to meet the commanding officer and report back to me. The subsequent advice and recommendation received from the Defence Forces general staff was that we should participate in Operation Sophia, the...

Defence Forces Operations: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: From an operational and logistical perspective the timing of the transfer of Naval Service operations in the Mediterranean to Operation Sophia, the Government has directed that this will take place at an appropriate juncture, which I will decide, based on advice from the Department and the Defence Forces. I believe that Ireland joining with the 25 other member states already contributing to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the qualifying criteria for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme and the primary medical certificate which underpins it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33274/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Public Sector Pensions (12 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 490 and 501 together. The last occasion that public service pensions, including Defence Forces pensions, were increased was on 1st September 2008. Up until then, Defence Forces pensions were generally increased in line with, and from the same operative date as, relevant pay increases applied to serving military personnel. Such public service pension...