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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (19 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The Defence Forces' 2019 recruitment campaign continues and is targeting 800 new members. Additionally a range of alternative recruitment approaches are being developed, aimed at addressing vacancies in certain specialist areas. There is also significant work being progressed, aimed at ensuring the Defence Forces remains an attractive career for those currently serving. There are ongoing...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (19 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: Similar to other sectors in the public service, the pay of Permanent Defence Force personnel was reduced as one of the measures to assist in stabilising national finances during the financial crisis. The recovery in the economy has provided the fiscal resources to restore pay scales to all public servants in an affordable and sustainable manner. Pay is being restored to members of the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Offices (19 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The information is contained in the following table. Year Rent paid for office space in the Permanent Representation to the Council of the EU, Brussels 2015 €84,846 2016 €116,896 2017 €121,490 2018 €111,600 2019 to date €27,207

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The number of Defence Forces personnel availing of psychiatric services through the HSE since July 2018, is not readily available. Personnel in need of psychiatric assessment are referred through their primary carer. To ascertain if a referral had been made for psychiatric assessment would involve each individual primary carer conducting a review of all their patients' records.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medical Services (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The Deputy will be aware that a range of both medical and non-medical services are provided to serving members of the Defence Forces who experience traumatic events in the line of duty. These include: - Access to Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) in the event of a traumatic incident; - A network of Personnel Support Service (PSS) Officers and occupational social workers at formation,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Claims Agency Data (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The State Claims Agency (SCA) manages personal injury claims of this nature on behalf of the Minister for Defence. The information sought by the Deputy could not be compiled by the SCA within the timeframe allowed to answer this Parliamentary Question. I will revert to the Deputy as soon as the information is provided to me.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Civil Defence (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: In September 2018, I announced a review of the existing roles and activities of Civil Defence. The intention of this review is to set out a road map for the Civil Defence organisation over the next 10-15 years. The outcome of this review will be a policy document, titled "Towards 2030", which I intend to publish in the coming months. As part of the review, there has been a wide ranging...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Civil Defence (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) is the regulator for emergency medical services in Ireland and their role is to protect the public. PHECC is an independent statutory agency with responsibility for standards, education and training in the field of pre-hospital emergency care. Organisations who wish to be operational and deliver emergency medical services, and use the PHECC...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The cost of restoring Defence Forces allowances (excluding Military Service Allowance) to pre-FEMPI levels could cost in the region of €7 million. This figure is based on estimates for 2019. As many of the duties are demand led and the number of duties can fluctuate year on year, this variable must be taken into consideration in comparing any actual figures with speculative amounts.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Employment Rights (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The Working Time Directive has been transposed into national legislation by way of the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997. The Government has committed to amending the Organisation of Working Time Act and bringing the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána within the scope of its provisions. The Organisation of Working Time Act sets out the requirements to be met by...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: Fixed Period Promotion in the Permanent Defence Force was previously part of the terms and conditions of Special Service Officers. The Defence Sector Action Plan of the Public Service Agreement 2010-2014, (the Croke Park Agreement), contained a commitment to review promotion procedures to ensure merit based competitive promotion policies are the norm. The policy of fixed period promotions...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Pensions (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) carried out a review in relation to the retirement ages of Public Servants in 2017. It was agreed at that time with DPER, that the retirement age for members of the uniformed fast accrual group, which included members of the Permanent Defence Force along with the Gardaí, Firefighters and Prison Officers, was best dealt with at...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: It is estimated that the cost of increasing Military Service Allowance by 10% would be approximately €4.8 million in a full year.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The allocation for Military Service Allowance (MSA) is included within the Permanent Defence Force (PDF) Pay allocation of the Defence Vote. In 2019, the PDF Pay allocation is €446.7 million. Total expenditure on MSA in 2018 was €46.5 million. MSA is paid to all ranks from Private up to the level of Colonel.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: In accordance with the Public Service Stability Agreement, 2013-2016, (the Haddington Road Agreement), all sectors across the public service were required to contribute to additional pay and productivity measures. Other sectors delivered these savings through a variety of approaches including additional working time and reduced rates of overtime payments. The contribution from the Defence...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The following table, provided by the military authorities, sets out the number of General Service inductions that took place in each of the five years from 2014 to 2018. General Service Recruits undertake initial training to qualify as two star Privates before proceeding to further training to qualify as three star privates. On average, over 20% of General Service recruits leave the Defence...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 58 and 59 together. The specific information sought by the Deputy is not maintained in the format requested and it is not possible to prepare the material in the timeframe given. I will write to the Deputy with the information requested at the earliest opportunity.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: There are no plans to introduce a Rent Allowance similar to that provided to An Garda Síochána for members of the Defence Forces, I can therefore not speculate on the cost of providing it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (20 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: 145. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25928/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Freedom of Information Data (25 Jun 2019)

Paul Kehoe: My Department received a total of 140 requests in 2018 for records under the Freedom of Information Acts. The table below shows the breakdown of these requests. Among the reasons for the refusal of requests was that the records sought did not exist. Granted 28 Part-Granted 34 Refused 47 Transferred 13 Withdrawn 13 Dealt with outside of FoI 5 Total number of FoI requests received in...