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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (22 Mar 2022)

John Brady: 1065. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a new DEXA machine provided to a hospital (details supplied) has not yet been set up for the medical team to use despite this new equipment being delivered approximately four months ago; his plans to resolve same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14936/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ukraine's Application for Membership of the European Union: Engagement with Ambassador of Ukraine. (15 Mar 2022)

John Brady: The ambassador is very welcome. I have had the privilege of meeting her on a number of occasions, including before a meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs before the invasion started. On that occasion, I listened to all of the concerns, including those about the military build-up. Unfortunately, all of the ambassador's concerns played out exactly as feared. Like all my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ukraine's Application for Membership of the European Union: Engagement with Ambassador of Ukraine. (15 Mar 2022)

John Brady: I will try to be brief as many questions have been covered already. I welcome both ambassadors. I had the honour of meeting Mr. Zurabashvili previously before Covid-19 struck. I have not had the privilege of meeting Mrs. Miculet until today. She is very welcome to the meeting. It is her first time to address the committee and I welcome the fact that Moldova has opened an embassy in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ukraine's Application for Membership of the European Union: Engagement with Ambassador of Ukraine. (15 Mar 2022)

John Brady: The ambassadors are very welcome. They gave very informative opening statements, which are much appreciated. I commend their countries ON all they have done so far. Countries opening up their borders when a humanitarian crisis is still unfolding is a testament to them. What Polish and Romanian nationals living here in Ireland as new Irish have done in supporting the effort is also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: There is a lot of focus here on neutrality and what neutrality means to people. This comes on the back of the horrendous actions in Ukraine. This report is also being used to further that political conversation. The underinvestment in our Defence Forces by successive governments, including this Government, has eroded what Ireland is supposed to be, which is militarily neutral. I would...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: They are using our airspace.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: I never raised funds anywhere.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: I never raised funds anywhere. The Deputy needs to withdraw that comment.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: The Deputy has made an accusation.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: The Deputy is accusing the military industry of funding my account.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: The Deputy said my account.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: That is just false as well. The Deputy is talking rubbish.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: I asked a question. Can I come back on that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: I ask the question on the implementation of this report because it needs to be a pivot point in the funding of our Defence Forces to stop the haemorrhaging of members from them. Implementation will be key, which needs a very strong implementation body. The independence of the chair to be appointed to that body will also be key, and critical to that body are the representative organisations...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: 53. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the person he intends to appoint to the implementation body for the Commission on the Defence Forces report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13233/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: The Minister stated that 38 houses were occupied, but his plan is to get everyone out of them and make them derelict as well. He has not answered the question as to how many houses are lying in a state of dereliction. Although we are focusing on the Curragh, I am conscious of the fact that married quarters are being closed down across the State, which means that hundreds of units that were...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: I thank the Minister. I appreciate that but I asked him specifically about the issue of mandatory selection. I asked him recently via a parliamentary question for the number of personnel of all ranks who have been mandatorily selected, those who have appealed the decision and the number of cases that have been upheld. I find it astonishing that information is not looked at or held within...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: 6. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the plans that are in place to address the former married quarters housing stock in the Curragh, many of which are lying empty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13232/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: I ask the Minister about the many boarded-up houses in the Curragh Camp that were formally used as married quarters. What is the plan for the use of those houses? What is the plan to bring them back into use? Have any conversations taken place about changing the policy or indeed, have any taken place with Kildare County Council with a view to making the houses available to deal with the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

John Brady: It is absolutely scandalous that in the midst of a housing crisis, any house should be left boarded up and lying vacant. This is especially true when we are dealing with, I believe, between 50 and 60 houses in the Curragh. Many of them have now been lying vacant for 30 years. That is a scandal in its own right. To hear there are absolutely no plans to look at bringing these back into use,...