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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: The Minister of State seems to be talking down the clock.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: He is trying to talk down the clock and obfuscate matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: The Minister of State cannot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: Chairman, the Minister of State is trying to deflect from the questions again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: Chairman, he is not answering the questions. I asked-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: I asked if the Minister of State had received a communication that a third or fourth ship could be tied up. He is not answering my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: If there is a total disregard for the committee system, what are we doing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: This is a disregard for the democratic process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: The Minister of State is not answering the questions. Has he received communication that a third or fourth ship might be tied up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Recruitment and Retention in the Defence Forces: Discussion with Minister of State (28 Nov 2019)
Jack Chambers: Okay, that is an answer. Can he tell us-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: I thank the Minister of State for his statement. He mentioned demand-led drivers and one of the submission documents states there is a natural rate of turnover. Is the current rate of turnover a natural rate of turnover? Will he clarify what he meant by this? Is he satisfied that turnover is at the appropriate and natural rate or is it too high? He stated it is driven by natural turnover...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: The Minister of State is doing that.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: Yes, the Minister of State is.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: Who writes the Minister of State's responses to parliamentary questions?
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: Net surrendered to the Exchequer was-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: He should use it for pay purposes.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: What about the pay review body?
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: In the interests of clarity, perhaps for Deputy McLoughlin, on the last occasion in the Dáil, the Minister of State stated the committee was at fault for many of the issues. Robust accountability is important. If the Minister of State is sensitive about that, it is his constitutional role, which, in fairness, I think he accepts. It is important we get answers.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: We have not got answers. I take Deputy McLoughlin's point. I just want to correct an issue and that is why I interjected. The Minister of State himself, in a response to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 27 March 2019, outlined specifically the savings, gross and net. My interpretation of that is clear. It is the net surrender to the Exchequer. In 2014, the gross savings were...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Supplementary Estimates for the Public Services 2019
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (28 Nov 2019) Jack Chambers: The Minister of State mentioned the Dormant Accounts Fund in the context of a net return to the Exchequer. Is he saying the Department received moneys from the Dormant Accounts Fund which were then returned? If so, to whom were those moneys returned? Did the Civil Defence receive funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund, which was subsequently channelled elsewhere as part of a net return?...