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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: UN Missions: Motion (16 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I said to the Deputy-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: UN Missions: Motion (16 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: When I get the gap analysis from military management, I will consider its details and the issue raised by the Deputy.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: UN Missions: Motion (16 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: There is a medals board that makes recommendations to me-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: UN Missions: Motion (16 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: -----concerning the Military Medal of Gallantry and the Distinguished Service Medal, DSM. No individual recommends them. Rather, it is up to the medals board. This issue has been dealt with time and again. As I have often stated, if anyone has further information that I could give to military management, the medals board will consider it, but I cannot say who deserves a medal. It is for...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: UN Missions: Motion (16 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I will revert to the committee with the review of and report on all of the missions that we have participated in over, say, the past ten years. Is that period okay?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Civil Defence (15 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) is the regulator for emergency medical services in Ireland and their role is to protect the public. The Pre Hospital Emergency Care Council require organisations who wish to be operational, to apply to them for an annual licence to operate. Organisations wishing to hold a licence to operate must sign the “statutory declaration”...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Civil Defence (15 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: Civil Defence is a volunteer based organisation of approximately 3,500 volunteers who give generously of their time and expertise for their community and in support of the Principal Response Agencies. The 2015 Government White Paper on Defence outlines that the Civil Defence Branch of my Department is responsible for the strategic management and development of Civil Defence at a national...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (15 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: In accordance with the Public Service Stability Agreement, 2013-2016, (the Haddington Road Agreement), all sectors across the public service were required to contribute to additional pay and productivity measures. Other sectors delivered these savings through a variety of approaches including additional working time and reduced rates of overtime payments. The contribution from the Defence...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (15 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The siege of Jadotville was a prominent event that occurred during Ireland's peacekeeping mission in the Congo in September 1961. "A" Company, 35th Infantry Battalion took responsibility for the UN post at Jadotville on 3rd September 1961. On the 9th September, a large force of Katangese Gendarmerie surrounded them and early on the morning of the 13th September "A" Company came under attack....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (15 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: Similar to other sectors in the public service, the pay of Permanent Defence Force personnel was reduced as one of the measures to assist in stabilising national finances during the financial crisis. The recovery in the economy has provided the fiscal resources to allow for an affordable and sustainable recovery in the public service pay scales. Pay is being restored to members of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (15 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of a school building project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21134/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: It is about connecting broadband.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (14 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I propose to take Questions Nos. 98 and 105 together. The White Paper on Defence provides for the replacement of LÉ Eithne with a Multi Role Vessel (MRV). This project is in the planning stage and accordingly, no public procurement competition tender documentation has issued to the market at this stage. It is intended to hold a public tender competition in due course to cover the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Emergency Planning (14 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: At a National level, as the Minister with responsibility for Defence, I chair the Government Task Force on Emergency Planning, which oversees and ensures the fullest level of coordination and cooperation regarding our national and strategic emergency management. In the event of an emergency at a National level or threats posed by an emerging emergency situation, the Strategic Emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Operations (14 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: As the Deputy is aware, the primary responsibility in terms of fire fighting lies with the fire service and the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government The Air Corps does not have a dedicated resource allocated to aerial fire-fighting. However, following a request from Chief Fire Officer in Donegal through the National Directorate of Fire and Emergency Management...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (14 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The conditions for entry to and service in the Permanent Defence Force, including the methodologies used for assessments, are subject to continuous review and modification having regard to the needs of the organisation and the development of best practices. At present, all applicants must have normal colour vision to join the Defence Forces. A Defence Forces Colour Vision Working Group was...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (14 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The design and associated tendering documentation for the upgrading of the existing Range 3 in the DFTC at the Curragh Camp is underway and it is intended that the procurement process for same will commence shortly, As the project will be the subject of a procurement process, I am not currently in a position to comment on when the works will commence.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Meetings (14 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: I currently have no plans to meet with the US Secretary of the Air Force, Ms Heather Wilson.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (14 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: The upper age limits for enlistment are determined on the basis that the essential functions of the Permanent Defence Force require its members to be able-bodied personnel of an age group which is commensurate with the functional requirements of the organisation. In 2017, the military authorities proposed that the upper age limit for entry to cadetships be reduced from 28...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Civil Defence (14 May 2019)

Paul Kehoe: Civil Defence training and operations are funded by a combination of annual operational grants from my Department and a contribution from the relevant local authority on a 70/30 basis. It is at the discretion of the Local Authority to provide additional funding over and above the required 30%.  The 70% rate is set down in Section 35 of the Air Raid Precautions Act, 1939. The table...