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Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Year Name Purpose Cost Report status â'¬ 1996/1998 O'Shea Business Consultants Provision of career change/outplacement support for members of Defence Forces availing of voluntary early retirement 386,615 Not Applicable 1996/1998 Staff Relations Services (Mr. D. Rochford) Chairman...

Written Answers — Superannuation Payments: Superannuation Payments (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The amounts collected by my Department in 2003, 2004 and 2005 by way of superannuation contributions — covering both personal and spouses' and children's superannuation benefits — are: Employee 2003 2004 2005 â'¬ million â'¬ million â'¬ million Military personnel(1) 4.888 5.208 5.544 Civilian Employees(2) 0.102 0.144 0.133 Civil...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The following properties were disposed of by my Department during the period in question. Property Details of Disposal Purchaser No. 9 Married Quarters, Bere Island, County Cork Sold to successors in title to original landowner. John and Angela O'Sullivan, 288 Collins Park, Beaumont, Dublin 9 Premises at Killorglin, County Kerry Disposed of to Kerry County Council to...

Written Answers — Bullying in the Workplace: Bullying in the Workplace (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: "A Positive Working Environment: an Anti Harassment, Sexual Harassment and Bullying Policy for the Civil Service" is the Civil Service policy for dealing with harassment, sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace. The original policy, introduced in July 2000, has been recently revised to reflect developments at national and EU level since the publication of the original policy, as well...

Written Answers — Departmental Remuneration: Departmental Remuneration (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: Civil Service posts at the levels of assistant secretary and deputy secretary are covered by a scheme of performance related awards. The operation of the scheme is overseen by the committee for performance awards. The funding of awards is based on 10% of the payroll for the posts covered by the scheme. Within this overall limit, payments of up to 20% can be made to individuals. Prior to the...

Written Answers — Service Medals: Service Medals (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The following tables list the medals issued by my Department. The medals indicated in the first table are issued for service spanning the period 1916 to 31 July 1924, the date on which the present day Defence Forces were legally established. The medals in the second table are those which are issued for service with the present day Defence Forces since their establishment in 1924. No medals...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Procurement: Defence Forces Procurement (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The framework for the production of annual corporate procurement plans was developed by the national public procurement policy unit in the Department of Finance during 2005. This is to apply to major infrastructural and network projects valued at €30 million or over. The White Paper on Defence which was published in 2000 set out the policy on defence for this decade with a view to ensuring...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The position regarding the provision of annual reports by the bodies under the aegis of my Department is as follows. It is not the practice for the Army Pensions Board to provide me with an annual report. Coiste an Asgard provided an annual report for 2004 and the report was laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Civil Defence Board is a new State authority established in May 2003 by...

Written Answers — Cash in Transit: Cash in Transit (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The total cost in respect of the provision by the Defence Forces of assistance to the Garda Síochána in protecting movements of cash for the years 2000 to 2004, the details not yet available for 2005, including pay, allowances, transport and aerial surveillance, was as follows. Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Total number of escorts 2,285 2,488 2,516 2,335 2,425 Cost of...

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The public bodies under the aegis of my Department that are currently exempt from the remit of the freedom of information legislation are Coiste an Asgard and the Civil Defence Board. In October 2005 the Government decided to extend the application of FOI legislation to include Coiste an Asgard and the Civil Defence Board. The Minister for Finance will bring forward the necessary regulations...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (26 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: As there is no postal system operating to or within Liberia, the Defence Forces have contracted a commercial courier to deliver Defence Forces post to and from the United Nations Mission in Liberia, UNMIL. This contract is for letter post only and is dispatched through this contract twice weekly — Monday and Thursday — throughout the year. Parcel post received by the Defence Forces for...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (26 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: A contingent of the Permanent Defence Force has been serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia, UNMIL, since November 2003. Defence personnel serving with the mission are entitled to 21 days annual leave for the duration of their tour of duty, six months. Defence Forces personnel on deployment to UNMIL are free to apply for leave at any time and to any destination, which may be...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (26 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: My Department is not aware of any recent court case as referred to by the Deputy. In a High Court judgment given on 5 August 2003, by consent, the court found that my Department was not bound under the relevant leases to surrender any part of the leased lands at Ballincollig to the head landlord in question, is entitled to alienate the leased lands for the residue of the leasehold period and...

Overseas Missions. (31 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The Deputy has raised a number of questions, and although my response will not answer some of them, I will get him the appropriate replies. I was informed of this case on Friday, 27 January 2006. I share the Deputy's concern that this case should have arisen. My first priority in dealing with this is the welfare of the troops who were attended to by this man. To that end the director of the...

Overseas Missions. (31 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The contract was initially for a period of three months commencing on 1 June 2004 and was subsequently extended to February 2005. Following a further tender competition a fresh contract, at €2,630 per doctor per week, was placed commencing 1 March 2005. During this time Medicare Solutions had supplied a number of other doctors for periods lasting from a few weeks to three months. This...

Written Answers — Fisheries Protection: Fisheries Protection (1 Feb 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The main day to day role of the Naval Service is to provide a fishery protection service in accordance with the State's obligations as a member of the European Union. The service is tasked with patrolling all Irish waters from the shoreline to the outer limits of the exclusive fishery limit, which covers 132,000 square miles. Where a fishing vessel is encountered which is suspected of being...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (1 Feb 2006)

Willie O'Dea: No public relations contracts were initiated, ongoing or completed in my Department during 2005.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (2 Feb 2006)

Willie O'Dea: My Department has made payments totalling €48,858 to the company concerned since 1969 in respect of ground rent payable under relevant leases. No other payments have been made to the company by my Department.

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (2 Feb 2006)

Willie O'Dea: Advice from public relations consultancy firms or individuals or external media advisers was not sought by myself, my predecessor, Deputy Michael Smith, or the Minister of State at my Department in the past three years. I have appointed a special adviser and a press adviser to provide me with relevant advice and press liaison services as necessary. Both have standard contracts of employment...

Written Answers — Airport Safety Zones: Airport Safety Zones (7 Feb 2006)

Willie O'Dea: International Standards and Recommended Practices — Aerodromes are published as annex 14 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation by the International Civil Aviation Organisation, ICAO. Chapter 4 volume 1 of annex 14 details the obstacle limitation requirements in relation to airports.