Results 3,821-3,840 of 3,962 for speaker:Lisa Chambers

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: RACO and PDFORRA could be included in the scoping phase of the project.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: My apologies, Chairman.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: There are only two organisations.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Are they even aware of the projects?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Through the Chair, do they know what the projects are?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Yes. Has incentivised leave been explored in terms of a retention policy? Has a scheme been costed? Will it be considered? The Minister of State has already touched on, as have I, the high attrition rate in the Defence Forces. Around the five year mark we are losing highly trained officers. A lot of money is spent on training people so it would be worth giving people the option of a...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Are soldiers being requested to provide a PRTB form when applying for a change of station allowance? If the Department does not generate the document then it is unfair to ask applicants to produce it and a lease agreement should suffice.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Can the Minister of State tell me whether the annual expenditure on this allowance has increased or decreased?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: That is an excellent idea as it will show we are being proactive in this area. In fairness to the Minister, he has stated on many occasions that he is open to hearing the ideas of other members on how to address the problems we are facing in respect of the Reserve Defence Force. Speakers touched on the social benefits of membership of the Reserve. This is not only an issue of our defence...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: The Estimate for pensions for 2016 is approximately €4 million less than it was last year. If, as it appears, more people will be in receipt of a pension, how will it be possible to spend less? The Estimate under A2 for 2015 is €218.6 million. This is over €3 million more than the original Revised Estimate for 2015, published in late 2014. For each of the four...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: I am finding it difficult to understand that while the Estimate for 2016 is €4 million less than the final figure for last year, we have greater pension expenditure requirements to meet. I just do not understand how we are squaring that. It seems like a deliberate under-estimation with a view to definitely requiring a Supplementary Estimate later in the year.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Yes.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: There is clearly continuous structural under-provision for pensions, and one is required to make gains or savings across the Defence Forces budget. We are in a situation in which the Defence Forces are effectively cannibalising themselves because they are making savings on an annual basis. Operational capability is skeletal now. The Defence Forces are being pushed constantly to make...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: I got it yesterday. I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Staff numbers.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: Personnel numbers affect capability.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: If we were looking at an average number, we would not under-recruit every single year. Why is there not a year in which we slightly over-recruit and actually go above what we believe we will need? Every year we under-recruit. Let us turn that around and perhaps over-provide to at least give us some possibility of some day reaching the ceiling. At the current rate of recruitment, we will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (29 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: 176. To ask the Minister for Health his views on issues (details supplied) regarding health insurance matters for members of the Defence Forces; and if he will review the regulations for lifetime community rating loadings so that those in the Defence Forces will not be subject to the penalty loadings for not taking out insurance policies that they do not need. [18764/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: 236. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Defence Forces management has engaged with the representative associations on the findings of the organisation climate survey; and if not, his views on whether such engagement is essential in light of the clear recommendation in the third report of the independent monitoring group that the representative associations were to be engaged in...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Health Insurance Community Rating (29 Jun 2016)

Lisa Chambers: 237. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware that the introduction of lifetime community rating in health insurance has meant that those over 34 years of age are now being forced to purchase indemnity health insurance plans they do not require for the sole purpose of negating the future impact of age levies imposed by these new regulations when they retire from the...