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- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: Due to the complex nature of the Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) process, the large increase in applications received following the Brexit vote in the UK, and the pause in the service due to necessary Covid-19 restrictions, applicants should allow approximately 2 years from the receipt of supporting documentation for processing of FBR applications at this time. Arising from Covid-19...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 161 and 172 to 174, inclusive, together. With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputies have enquired, these applications are within the current turnaround times and have not yet reached their issue by date.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: With regard to the specific application about which the Deputy has enquired, the Passport Service is investigating the case and is in direct contact with the applicant in relation to same.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 163, 165 to 168, inclusive, 170, 171 and 175 together. With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputies have enquired, the Passport Service has issued passports to the applicant.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: I propose to take Questions Nos. 164 and 169 together. With regard to the specific applications about which the Deputies have enquired, the Passport Service has reviewed the applications and progressed as appropriate.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: The only State body under the aegis of my Department is the Army Pensions Board. The Army Pensions Board is an independent statutory body established under the Army Pensions Act 1927 to provide for the payment of pensions, allowances and gratuities in certain circumstances to members of the Defence Forces. The Army Pensions Board is not registered as a charity.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Public Sector Pensions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: The occupational pension (superannuation) entitlement of members of the Defence Forces depend on the date the person joins the Defence Forces, and also on their specific circumstances and on many variables including rank, pensionable service and pensionable remuneration. The main dates of joining that dictate a difference in what pension terms apply are: - before 1 April 2004, -...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Public Sector Pensions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: The Army Pensions Vote (Vote 35) provides for retired pay, pensions, compensation, allowances and gratuities payable in respect of members of the Defence Forces and certain other military organisations, etc. All benefits are governed by the relevant rules, terms and conditions made pursuant to the Defence Forces Pensions Acts 1932 to 2004, the Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: I thank the Chair and members. I am pleased to report to the committee on the participation of the Irish Defence Forces in United Nations missions in 2020 and 2021. These reports were laid before the Dáil on 21 June 2021 and on 30 March 2022, respectively. The following motion were placed on the Order Paper for Dáil Éireann and have been referred to this committee. The...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: No. The UN mission in Mali is due to end in September. The training mission is not due to end.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: There are two missions in Mali. There is the UN mission-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: -----involving the Ranger wing and two support staff. There is also the EU training mission. We are ending our involvement in the UN mission in September.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: There were many questions in that contribution.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: I suspect the reply to some of Deputy Brady's questions may inform some of the other questions. I thank the Deputy for paying tribute to the Defence Forces, whose members do an extraordinary job, particularly overseas. I have been to UNIFIL five or six times now and every time I am impressed by the relationship it has with local communities and how trusted those personnel are with local...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: No, we did not.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: It is just like the situation where we did not need to go through a triple lock process to send a ship to the Mediterranean because it was not a UN mission. It was a bilateral support mission with the Italians that was based on a humanitarian cause that needed and benefited from an Irish intervention and that pulled 16,000 people out of the sea to save their lives. I hope the Deputy is not...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: No, the training-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: Troops, as is always the case in terms of the military, will follow orders. Our job in Mali has been to train troops predominantly to try to de-mine certain areas and to try to protect themselves and the civilians they are there to try to protect from some pretty unsavoury forces across the Sahel and Mali. That is what they have been there for. I would not like the kind of slur that the...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: To say that our troops actively trained the people responsible for the coup, I think, is something that maybe Sinn Féin should consider.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reports on Service by the Defence Forces with the UN and Permanent Structured Cooperation Projects: Motions (30 Jun 2022)
Simon Coveney: Deputy Brady had his say.