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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the security needs of the central Border region will be considered in the context of the recommendation of the Commission on the Defence Forces that the structure of the Army be reviewed and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41900/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 25. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress to date in implementing the recommendation in the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces that the structure of the Army be reviewed and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41899/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: The Commission on the Defence Forces recommended significant changes to the Defence Forces. Given the changed security situation in Europe with Ukraine having been invaded by Russia and Britain's exit from the EU, we need to review the number of facilities for Army personnel and their location. Aiken Barracks, Dundalk, is located in the north east and Finner Camp is in south-west Donegal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I very much welcome the fact that the needs of the central Border region in the context of defence and security issues will be taken into consideration in the review of the structures and location of Army installations. Dún Uí Néill was the most modern military barracks in Europe and opened in 1990. Very regrettably, it was closed in 2012. It is situated in the central...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: That knowledge is not readily available without our Permanent Defence Force being based locally. At different times, that knowledge and the work of our Defence Forces played a critical role not just in day-to-day security matters but in our State's work in keeping our country free of animal diseases over the decades when there were outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease and BSE that threatened...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposals to increase capacity on a route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41896/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there have been discussions with the Northern Ireland Executive in relation to the need to tackle paramilitarism, taking into account their programme for Government reference to the fact that “paramilitary harm continues to affect too many adults and young people”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42304/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authorities (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if urgent and favourable consideration will be given to a request from a local authority (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42324/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if the threshold for tax payment will be increased from €30,000 to €40,000 for persons on relatively low income who are eligible for 1.5 lump sum payment of their annual salary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42322/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 168. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a student is entitled to the back-to-education allowance to study a particular course at the same educational level as they have already achieved but the other course is in a different area of learning and that part-time course was undertaken at the student’s own expense; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 264. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of widespread concerns in relation to the inadequate and limited supply of HRT patches (details supplied); the measures that will be undertaken to ensure that women will have no delay in accessing such products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41995/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of widespread concerns in relation to the shortage in supply of fortisip compact protein drinks (details supplied); the measures that will be undertaken to ensure that supply of these necessary drugs are made available to patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41996/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (15 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the additional measures, if any, that will be introduced to deal with littering problems throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41389/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (15 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concern of businesses trading in household energy products due to smoky coal products being imported illegally into the State; the resources that he is providing to local authorities to counteract such illegal trade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41390/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I think he was married to a good Cavan woman.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: The Tánaiste would have heard me in this House and elsewhere, on numerous occasions, highlight the unacceptable delays in children with additional needs in Cavan and Monaghan getting an assessment of needs and, where necessary, follow-up therapies. I fully appreciate the substantial increase in funding for such services since 2020, but the bottom line is that services are far from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Cathaoirleach very much. Like him, I welcome the witnesses. I also wish to say how powerful the presentations were. I compliment all of the witnesses in that regard. I do not think any of us disagree with any element of the contributions they made. I listened to Ms O'Connor recently at a meeting of the North-South Inter-Parliamentary Association, as did the Cathaoirleach and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: Safe Ireland is the umbrella body dealing with different groups that provide services for victims of domestic abuse. Is there good collaboration on an all-Ireland basis between the relevant statutory agencies, North and South? Ms Mitchell mentioned the cross-Border dimension to all of this, whether it is accessing services or the perpetrators of violence leaving one jurisdiction and being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: Sharing of information is not a big draw on resources. I hope there is the relevant sharing of information between the agencies.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Cross-Border Co-operation (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding that will be made available by his Department under the Shared Island Initiative for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40381/24]