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Roads (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Roads Act 1993 to exempt sea and river rescue teams from road tolls and to provide for related matters. Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil as ucht an deis an reachtaíocht seo, reachtaíocht tábhachtach i mo thuairimse ach reachtaíocht cuibheasach simplí, a chur os comhair an...

Roads (Amendment) Bill 2017: First Stage (6 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is a procedural motion to allow for 40 minutes to discuss a defence motion which, as Deputy Howlin said, has not been produced yet. We have heard in the media that it was before Cabinet. That is not good enough. The implications of this motion, if it is to come before the House, are huge. I am not going to go into the specifics of it because we are now discussing the procedural...

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There has been no pre-legislative scrutiny or discussion in committee. This is a fundamental change and we have to object.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We are not delaying anything. This House is not a delay.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On a procedural matter, we are deciding to take a motion tomorrow regarding a matter which is before a committee tomorrow.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We in this Chamber are being presumptuous about what the committee will decide. We do not know whether it will pass the motion tomorrow.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Yes, both of them are on Thursday. We have no idea whether the committee will ask for a debate in this House. It should not be on the Order Paper for-----

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It goes to the committee on Thursday.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The committee and the Dáil are dealing with it on the same day.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I made the Business Committee aware of this when we met on Thursday. I explained-----

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I disagreed with the business that was being proposed because it had not passed the committee and was not likely to.

Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not agreed.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Health and Safety Inspections (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 29. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether it is credible that all copies of the reports of inspections into health and safety at Casement Aerodrome in the 1990s sent by Forbairt to the Department of Defence in 1995, 1997 and 1998 have disappeared; his further views on the position of military authorities whose lack of concern at their disappearance is matched by...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Health and Safety Inspections (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister of State seriously want us to believe that at least four health and safety reports into conditions in workshops etc. at the Air Corps' Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel, County Dublin, have just vanished in an organisation that is scrupulous in retaining files? It is inexcusable that no investigation into the disappearance has been initiated even though we know that at least...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Health and Safety Inspections (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Many former Air Corps members, especially those involved in the maintenance of planes in the 1980s, 1990s and since, are suffering severe chronic illnesses that they believe were caused by their exposure to toxic chemicals while working as technicians at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel. A toxicologist has given his medical opinion that these conditions exist in the case of six men who are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Health and Safety Inspections (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister of State believe personal protection equipment was issued to the men and women in the Air Corps in the 1980s? Does he believe they were seriously exposed to chemicals such as these? I know he has seen the photograph I am holding up. It was shown to him by the whistleblowers. When he met the whistleblowers, did he ask them for copies of the report? I have in my hand...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Health and Safety Inspections (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In the Minister of State's view, are the whistleblowers distinguished or disgusting?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel Data (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister of State did not wash his hands.

Other Questions: Military Medals (11 Jul 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 33. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he plans to award medals to the surviving veterans and next of kin of the deceased veterans who served with distinction during the siege of Jadotville in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1961; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32263/17]