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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (27 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The existing protocol recognises that medals are decorations awarded to individuals in recognition of specific acts and service and as such the approach is that they should only be worn by the individuals to whom they were awarded. While I understand the family pride and history attached to medals relating to the period in question, the current guidance, which is not statutory in nature,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (27 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: In 2017, under my direction, the Department of Defence raised recruitment and retention issues as part of its original submission to the Public Service Pay Commission. In a further acknowledgement of these issues the Government tasked the Public Service Pay Commission with examining these challenges in the Defence Sector in more detail. The Public Service Pay Commission has commenced...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Budgets (27 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The budget allocated to my Department makes provision for Vote 35 Army Pensions and Vote 36 Defence. The gross budget provision and actual expenditure for the years 2014 to 2017 are shown in the following table. Year Gross Budget Provision Actual Expenditure Outturn Amount Unspent at Year End 2014 €898.8m €898.6m €0.2m 2015 €898.3m €898.0m €0.3m...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (27 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: 400. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for an assessment of need for a person (details supplied); the efforts being made to reduce the waiting time in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13914/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Training Programme (28 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The White Paper on Defence, published in the Autumn of 2015, considered the security environment including the threat from international terrorism. It notes that the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána have primary responsibility for protecting the internal security of the State. The Defence Forces provide, on request, supports in aid to the civil power...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Data (28 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: Statistics are compiled by my Department and submitted to the National Disability Authority retrospectively during the first quarter of each year in respect of the previous year. The return for 2017 is currently being finalised. This is expected to confirm that at the end of 2017 there were 351 civil servants employed in the Department of Defence of which 20, or 5.7%, had...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Medals (29 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The Department of Defence receives requests from time to time for the replacement of lost, stolen or destroyed medals awarded to Veterans of the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence. In relation to such requests, it has been settled policy for many years that replacement medals were issued on a once-off only basis on receipt of a bona-fidérequest from the Veteran to whom the original...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Training (29 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: There has not been any expenditure in my Department in relation to social media training and consultancy as outlined in the Deputy’s question.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Training (29 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: No training has been supplied in my Department in relation to social media in respect of the organisations outlined in the Deputy's question.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (29 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: In the period since 2010 my Department has no record of having awarded any contracts to the company referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Strength (29 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 74 and 76 together. As of the 28th February, 2018 (the latest date for which figures are available), the whole time equivalent strength of the Permanent Defence Force, across all three services and ranks, broken down by gender was as follows: - Service Total Personnel Female Personnel Army 7,281 490 Naval Service 1,046 68 Air Corps 730 33 Total...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve Strength (29 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 75 and 77 together. As of 28th February 2018 (the latest date for which figures are available), the effective strength of the Reserve Defence Force (Army Reserve and Naval Service Reserve) was as follows: Service Total Effective Personnel Female Personnel Army Reserve 1,653 232 Naval Service Reserve 124 21 Total 1,777 253 I am aware that there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Bomb Disposals Data (29 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána have primary responsibility for the internal security of the State. Among the roles assigned to the Defence Forces in the White Paper on Defence is the provision of Aid to the Civil Power which, in practice, means to assist An Garda Síochána when requested to do so. The Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (29 Mar 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The number of days spent at sea by members of the Naval Service Reserve in 2017 and 2018 to-date is as follows: Year Sea Days 2017 167 days 2018 Nil to date

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (17 Apr 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the amount of expenditure on consultancy,the number of consultants and the names of the consultancy companies awarded contracts by my Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017 is set out in the table below: My Department is always mindful of the costs involved in engaging consultants. External consultancy is only engaged when...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (17 Apr 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 124 and 125 together. As the Deputy will be aware, under my direction, the Department of Defence brought the issue of the retention of certain specialist, including Air Corps pilots, to the attention of the Public Service Pay Commission in 2017. This matter is referenced in paragraph 6.29 of the Commission's report of May 2017. The Government has...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Law Reform Commission (17 Apr 2018)

Paul Kehoe: There is no legislation either enacted or published by the Department which originated in work carried out by the Law Reform Commission in the past ten years.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Data (17 Apr 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 and 138 together. The number of departures from the Defence Forces at all ranks in each of the years 2002 to 2018 is set out in the table below. (Figures quoted for 2018 are as of the 28thFebruary 2018). Over this time frame different strength ceilings applied to the Permanent Defence Force. The White Paper (2000) set the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cyber Security Policy (17 Apr 2018)

Paul Kehoe: PESCO is a mechanism provided for in the Treaty of the European Union to enable participating member States to come together and, on a project by project basis, jointly develop military crisis management capabilities for use in support of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) operations and missions in support of international peace and security. Ireland is a strong...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Pensions (17 Apr 2018)

Paul Kehoe: Under the Army Pensions Acts 1923-1980 a disability pension or gratuity may, following retirement, be granted to a former member of the Permanent Defence Force (PDF) for permanent disablement due to a wound or injury attributable to military service (whether at home or abroad)  or to a disease attributable to, or aggravated by, overseas service with a United Nations Force. The criteria...