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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Strength (23 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 140. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Air Corps personnel stationed at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel in each of the years 1980 to 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3223/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (23 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 141. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the report of the lariam working group as referenced by him in a Private Memberss debate on the matter in Dáil Éireann on 28 June 2017 has been completed and provided to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3224/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications (23 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for supplementary welfare allowance by a person (details supplied); and when they can expect a decision on their case. [3217/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Remuneration (23 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has repaid the €15,000 overpayment she received during her term as Government Whip; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3225/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Corps (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 2. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to carry out a medical or health audit of serving and former members of the Air Corps similar to that undertaken in Australia in order to identify those that may have been exposed on an ongoing basis to toxic chemicals during their service. [3490/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Corps (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Given the possibility that there is a major health scandal hidden in the Air Corps due to bad health and safety standards, is it not logical that an audit or survey of the health of serving members and ex-serving members be carried out to determine the scale of the health problems in Ireland, similar to the survey that was undertaken in Australia when that country became aware of serious...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Corps (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I accept that progress has been made in improving health and safety in the Air Corps since these issues were first raised with previous Ministers and with the relevant authorities. I am not seeking comparisons with Australia but am alluding to a process undertaken in that country which has not been undertaken here on foot of the Department becoming aware of a serious scandal. The event to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Air Corps (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: All the O'Toole report dealt with was whether the procedures were in place to deal with whistleblowers. This is not about the whistleblowers or the cases before the courts at the moment. The State is fighting them tooth and nail and I think it is on the losing side. If those are set aside, there are quite a number of other members who gave service to this State, through the Air Corps, who...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 7. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to publish the recommendations of the latest report of the lariam working group. [3175/18]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question relates to the working group which was set up before the Minister took up his role looking into the use of lariam within the Defence Forces. The Minister told me last night in a reply to a parliamentary question that the group had made 12 recommendations. When will the report be published and when will we know what those recommendations are? Do the recommendations comply with...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know how we can have any faith in a working group and its hidden recommendations when the same working group, in its 2013 report which was also not published, had as one of its conclusions that the Defence Forces could continue prescribing lariam as a drug of first choice to tackle and prevent malaria. It found that the Defence Forces were acting correctly at a time when other...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We do not know what the recommendations are so we will not be able to gauge whether they are effective or not. The medical and academic evidence is stacking up against lariam and I can give the Minister a report by one of the expert witnesses in a recent case which was settled by the State Claims Agency just before Christmas. Has the Minister had a briefing on that case? Was the case...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Permanent Structured Co-operation (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 24. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the impact of increased defence spending as a result of the decision to join PESCO, particularly in relation to public services. [3176/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Gender Equality (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 17. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps he plans to take to increase gender equality in the Defence Forces. [3178/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 34. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to follow the approach of other states in addressing concerns raised by Air Corps personnel in relation to the issue of toxic exposure. [3179/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Advertising Regulation (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 39. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the recent attempts by the British army to recruit young Irish persons through social media, contrary to the Defence Acts; and the steps he plans to take in relation to this. [3177/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (24 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action which will be taken on the Air Corps chemical exposure scandal in view of the receipt of the whistleblower's views on the O'Toole Report. [3606/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Legal Costs (30 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 128. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the legal costs to the State in respect of a case (details supplied) relating to the anti-malaria drug Lariam; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4407/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (30 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is awaiting the conclusion of the pay review; and the timeframe to act on the issue of pay inequality. [4332/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (30 Jan 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if no plan to resolve the issue of pay inequality exists, the way in which he can justify a position that is contrary to the principle of equal pay for equal work. [4333/18]