Results 11,041-11,060 of 17,012 for speaker:Paul Kehoe

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I expect it to be within the next couple of weeks.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: There are 24 doctors at the moment. There should be 30. We are recruiting. As the Deputy knows, recruiting doctors is a challenge. We have changed the method of recruiting doctors and it has worked successfully for us. If the Deputy knows of individual cases where people have had to retire on health grounds and were not looked after, perhaps he could give me the details.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputy said they were waiting for-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: If the Deputy has details of individual cases, I would be delighted-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: If the Deputy has the personal details of somebody in such a position, I would be glad to take them. I have no problem with that whatsoever.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The Government has decided to amend the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 to remove the blanket exclusion of the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána and bring them within the scope of that legislation, subject to the application of the exclusions permitted under the EU working time directive. Last night, I spoke to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection,...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: No one was blocked.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: That is because deliberations are ongoing. This is a priority for me, for the military management and for my Department.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: Payments in respect of visits by members of the Defence Forces to professional consultants and specialists were previously met from subhead A7. They are now met under subhead A18. That is the reason for the increase. This is reflected in an increased allocation of €4 million under subhead A18.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: Many of these cases hinge on a clinical decision for the doctor. We have our own in-house GPs but we have to bring in locums on occasion to see members of the Defence Forces. Their reports are put on the medical files. If a member of the Defence Forces living in south County Wexford wakes up, is unable to go to work and has to get some sort of doctor's certificate, that is a clinical...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: There is no opportunity at the moment, but I have it in mind to do that. Is the Chairman referring to the First Line Reserve?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: A report regarding eyesight standards required for the Naval Service Reserve recruits has been submitted to the general staff by the Naval Service's flag officer commanding. The findings of this report will be considered in due course. I would like to have this sorted out before the Reserve recruitment campaign if at all possible. I hope this will be sorted out shortly. In 2019 there will...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: In regard to Reserve Defence Force man-days, in 2018 some 1,091 people were involved in training.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I take the Chairman's comments on board.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I take that on board. We do not contemplate that happening. The security of the State is a matter for An Garda Síochána in the first instance. If the Defence Forces are required, it will be in the context of providing military aid to the civil power.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The cookhouse in Athlone is under construction at the moment. I understand it will be finished by sometime in October or November at a total cost of €4.1 million. I am not sure about any works at Finner Camp. It has previously been well looked after and new facilities were built there. A five-year plan is being built up and officials in my Department are in contact with the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (5 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Chairman, the clerk and committee members for their input.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (6 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 68 and 69 together. The siege of Jadotville was a prominent event that occurred during Ireland's peacekeeping mission in the Congo in September 1961. "A" Company, 35th Infantry Battalion took responsibility for the UN post at Jadotville on 3rd September 1961. On the 9th September, a large force of Katangese Gendarmerie surrounded them and early on the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (6 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: No expenditure was incurred in respect of my Department on social media advertising and online promoted content in 2018 or to date in 2019, in the form referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Advertising Expenditure (6 Mar 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I have set out the details of the online advertising agency and costs incurred by my Department in relation to the Be Winter Ready campaign, for 2018 in the table below.There has not been any expenditure in this regard to date in 2019, as the campaign is carried out in the last quarter of the year. Advertising Agency € Management of Twitter campaign Spark Foundry...