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- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister maybe does not know what is in his own Bill.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Boyd Barrett does not know what is in the Bill, as he acknowledged.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What does it deal with?
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: The process. It deals with the grievance process, not individual complaints.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the grievance process.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is what I am trying to clarify. It is not individual complaints. I will come back to it.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is oversight over human resources. To be clear, this same person attempted to go to the WRC and discovered that he cannot go to the WRC because, apparently, people are deemed workers, not employees, when they are members of the Defence Forces, which seems ridiculous to me. Apparently they cannot go to the WRC with a case of penalisation. It looks like the Minister's officials are...
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is because it is exasperating to listen to this nonsense. To me, that is just an instance of how there is a problem because, surely, an external oversight body should be precisely something that does not have that sort of cosy relationship or potential conflict of interest where it might not really be in its interest to admit there is a problem or something being done wrong and,...
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Amendments Nos. 6 to 9, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 6: In page 14, line 33, to delete "and" where it secondly occurs and substitute the following: "(c) the Secretaries General of those military representative associations authorised by the Minister as per subsection (3A) of the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990 (inserted by section 23(a)(iii) of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2024) who shall be ex officio members, and". ...
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Brendan Howlin: My amendment No. 7 is in this grouping. As the previous speaker said, these proposals concern the membership of the very important external oversight body. The recommendation to establish such a body to oversee the operations of the Defence Forces really is the kernel of the Bill. The Tánaiste agreed, both at committee and again in our discussions on my first Report Stage amendment,...
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 4: In page 9, lines 12 and 13, to delete “in relation to a political matter or matter of Government policy” and substitute “in relation to a matter for political controversy”.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Amendment put and declared lost.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, line 13, to delete “or matter of Government policy”.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 51; Níl, 71; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell; Níl, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Tá Chris Andrews, Ivana Bacik, Mick Barry, Cathal Berry, Richard Boyd Barrett, John Brady, Martin Browne, Pat Buckley, Holly Cairns, Seán Canney, Sorca Clarke, Michael Collins, Rose Conway-Walsh, Réada Cronin, Pa Daly, Pearse Doherty, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Mairead Farrell, Michael Fitzmaurice, Gary Gannon, Thomas Gould, Johnny Guirke, Michael Healy-Rae, Brendan Howlin,...
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Amendment declared lost.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, line 11, to delete “or matter of Government policy”.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 51; Níl, 71; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell; Níl, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin.
- Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)
Tá Chris Andrews, Ivana Bacik, Mick Barry, Cathal Berry, Richard Boyd Barrett, John Brady, Martin Browne, Pat Buckley, Holly Cairns, Seán Canney, Sorca Clarke, Rose Conway-Walsh, Réada Cronin, Pa Daly, Pearse Doherty, Paul Donnelly, Dessie Ellis, Mairead Farrell, Michael Fitzmaurice, Gary Gannon, Thomas Gould, Johnny Guirke, Danny Healy-Rae, Michael Healy-Rae, Brendan Howlin,...