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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: We are addressing those issues. I have stated we have challenges.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputy is absolutely wrong in saying that. Earlier this year I met the CEO of the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority in Haulbowline. The Naval Service has been able to fulfil any request it has received from it, An Garda Síochána or the Customs service. I am not sure if the Deputy saw the successful drugs interdiction a number of weeks ago by the Naval Service in co-operation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I hear also this information-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The Senator put out a tweet a number of weeks ago in which he said-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I do not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The Senator said all of our ships were tied up, which was totally incorrect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I dealt with the Chief of Staff and the Accounting Officer. I will speak to Deputy Grealish separately about the medals. I do not wish to get into that matter now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I have addressed the non-pay retention issues and also those on the pay side.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: All contracts are being examined. I can talk to the Senator separately about that matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: The White Paper on defence provides the policy framework over a ten-year planning horizon. A key commitment is the introduction of a system of fixed cycle reviews to ensure policy will remain up to date. The approach is to have an update every three years and a more strategic review every six years. The first White Paper update review is under way and I understand it will be before the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I will not get into it now if we will be returning to the committee about it. The submission on pilots was sent last April. I expect it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: What the pay commission had sought from us was a data based submission in which we gave it all of the statistics, trends and so forth. It is not up to us to make recommendations. It is up to the pay commission to make recommendations to the Government. Of course, the interface and dialogue are ongoing with the pay commission, the Department and the military. Why would one have a pay...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: My officials tell me that we included in the submission the pilot retention scheme that was also in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: We included what was in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: Not a recommendation. We included what was in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: No. In the submission we made to the pay commission on pilot retention we looked at a number of measures that were in place. It is up to the pay commission to recommend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: After we submitted the submission on pilots the Public Service Pay Commission came back to us looking for data-based evidence for the wider Defence Forces organisation. That is what we put to it. It looked for data-based evidence and trends, which is what we gave it. Deputy Jack Chambers spoke about trends in recruitment. With regard to general service recruitment, in 2002, 2,750 people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I have given them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: I am sorry-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council – Defence, and Related Matters: Minister of State at the Department of Defence (18 Oct 2018)

Paul Kehoe: In reply to the Deputy in the Dáil a number of weeks ago I said we had challenges. We are going through the process with the Public Service Pay Commission. Adjudications are happening. If fixing pay was within my remit, it would have been fixed long ago, but it is not within my remit. It is the responsibility of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We have highlighted...