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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It was not excluded for not reaching the minimum standard.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I understand that.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am trying, as I have tried in this brief, to approach everything in a practical way, despite my suspicion of these moves. That is why, for instance, we did not vote against the European Defence Agency motions last week. I can see the practical benefits of co-operation. Will it be a requirement to make troops available for deployment as part of PESCO missions, some of which we have...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Finally I will bring up one issue which was mentioned, although there are probably more there. Does the Minister of State expect that this move by the European Union states will increase the militarisation of Europe by increasing the spend on military equipment? I do not necessarily mean only Ireland's spend, but that of EU states in general. I understand the logic of having similar...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: When was the decision made to join? Was it on 12 or 13 November? Up until then it had not been confirmed. The Minister, Deputy Coveney, was the first to come out and say that we would join, subject to Dáil approval.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to share time with Deputy Crowe. I will take ten minutes and he will have five minutes.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I make no apology for supporting the Defence Forces overseas operations. The simplistic claptrap we heard from Deputy Lisa Chambers is a disgrace. It is obvious that she has not listened in this Chamber or in the committee to anything I or others have said. I know of nobody in this Dáil who wants the Defence Forces to run on a shoestring budget. Nobody in this Chamber wants Irish...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can go a long way back into history-----

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----including the military coup carried out by Fianna Fáil in 1932.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is relevant because it is the history of the Defence Forces. It has been an honourable history-----

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If Deputy Chambers wants a history lesson I can sit her down and give her one at some stage. I am a history teacher. I understand history.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am sorry. I will address the Chair. Those of us in this Chamber want the Defence Forces to have the equipment, pay and conditions and protection required when they carry out humanitarian operations overseas as part of their laudable history of peacekeeping. It is when one starts interfering with the sovereignty and neutrality of the Irish State in the way outlined in the motion that we...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Taoiseach's nose is getting bigger there.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Today’s business shall be No. 31, Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017 - Second Stage (resumed), if not previously concluded; No. 10, motion re change in ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 11, Financial Resolution re Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016; No. 12, motion re EU recast reception conditions directive 2013/33/EU - referral to committee; No....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 43. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps taken by his Department to address the pay and conditions of the Defence Forces personnel as highlighted by a group (details supplied) in a recent protest. [53034/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question is to ascertain whether the Minister of State has taken any steps to address the poor terms and conditions experienced by members of the Defence Forces, as highlighted a fortnight ago by the Wives and Partners of the Defence Forces, WPDF, organisation when it organised a 24-hour vigil outside Leinster House on Wednesday, 29 November.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister of State accept the pay is so low that one in five members rely on social welfare payments to cover food and living costs? Does he accept that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of Defence Forces members qualifying for the family income supplement payments and that some Defence Forces members sleep in their cars because they cannot afford to get petrol to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will ask those who have supplied me with the information to provide the examples. However, sometimes there is a concern that if a problem is highlighted it might lead to victimisation. One issue the members have requested that the Minister of State might address is that the duty and sea-going allowances be fully restored to the previous rate, from €20 to €75 for a 24-hour...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 58. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action he has taken further to the Dáil Éireann motion prohibiting the use of Lariam as a drug of first choice for soldiers deployed overseas in areas in which exposure to malaria is a risk. [52874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Reports (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 61. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the chemical exposure report 1994 to 2005 produced in 2014 by a person (details supplied); if a copy of that report was made available to the independent reviewer to allow them carry out a full assessment of the way in which the Air Corps dealt with recent whistleblowers' statements; if not, the reason...