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Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am almost finished. The Defence Forces do not mass prescribe but rather follow all of the instructions issued by the Irish Medicines Board in order to fully screen personnel who may potentially have an adverse reaction to the medication.

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I like to be as comprehensive and informative as possible.

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: As I explained to the Deputy, the Defence Forces continue to use it because, unlike the US military, they do not engage in mass prescribing without individualised assessment of Defence Forces personnel travelling abroad. Individualised assessment is important. It is also important that individuals being assessed engage truthfully with the medical assessor and that they, if in receipt of...

Other Questions: Defence Forces UN Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy raised some very important human rights issues. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights produced a report that makes a number of recommendations to the various actors involved in resolving the crisis in Mali with the aim of protecting the civilian population and promoting national reconciliation. The recommendations include ensuring that all perpetrators of human...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: Irish personnel being deployed to EUTM Mali are administered the anti-malarial medication mefloquine, also known as Lariam. Defence Forces personnel are also issued with individual first aid kits as well as insect repellent and sunblock. Irish personnel will also have access to the mission medical facilities and may be prescribed additional medications as appropriate.

Other Questions: Defence Forces UN Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The first question to ask is what it is that Deputy Mac Lochlainn wants us to be neutral over. Should we be neutral when fundamentalist groups are killing people, chopping off their limbs and raping women? Is that something about which we are neutral? I am not neutral about that. I think we need to be of assistance to stop such atrocities happening. Let us not get lost in ideology in...

Other Questions: Defence Forces UN Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: Like Deputy Finian McGrath, Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl gives a little too much credence to the nonsense he reads in Phoenix. There has been no decision about numbers of troops. I dealt with this issue at some length. There is a United Nations proposal for a mission. As I indicated in my earlier reply, we are considering technical areas in which we can provide personnel. The...

Other Questions: Defence Forces UN Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: It is something at which one can laugh with great regularity.

Other Questions: Defence Forces UN Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: Yes, that is what I said.

Other Questions: Defence Forces UN Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: This country will not become involved in anyone's adventures anywhere. We do not get involved in adventures. We have a tradition of which we should be proud in the House and which we should never misrepresent of having enormously competent Defence Forces which bring special skills to peacekeeping and which are widely recognised globally. We punch substantially above our weight to deploy...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I have absolutely no idea why the Deputy is shouting and getting so exercised nor can I figure what relevance his rather unnecessary and odd reference to Palestinian children has to this issue, unless the Deputy has something else going through his mind. Let me inform the Deputy that in the context of that issue, I have been a great deal more engaged than he. I have been engaged in talking...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: It is not a coincidence that in the context of the question about Afghanistan he diverted to other issues.

Other Questions: Defence Forces UN Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 77, 81, 83, 87 and 97 together. I addressed the question of possible Defence Forces' participation in the newly established United Nations' multidimensional integrated stabilisation mission in Mali in my reply to a priority question. On 17 January 2013, the Council of the European Union established the EU training mission, EUTM Mali, which was formally...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: We have lost no respect as an international peacekeeper.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: As I meet colleagues inside and outside the European Union as Minister for Defence, I find there is enormous respect for the role played by this country. There is enormous respect for the reality, as well as for the perception that we have no agenda of any description, other than trying to assist in bringing about peace and stability in various troubled regions of the world. That is what...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: In the context of any savings that had to be effected, I said that in real financial terms they were not large as they affected any individual, but the approach was that the new financial arrangements would have a greater impact on those who were better paid than on those who were lesser paid. I do not know if the Deputy is suggesting that those who are paid less should have been hit to a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: On 20 December 2001, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1386 under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, authorising the establishment of the International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, in Afghanistan. On 9 October 2012, the UN Security Council extended ISAF’s mandate for a further year until October 2013. Ireland has participated in the NATO–led, UN-mandated...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: First, there are still difficulties in Afghanistan. The Deputy is wrong about the situation in Afghanistan because there are substantial improvements in that country compared to ten years ago. However, the Deputy chooses to ignore them.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: Is the Deputy suggesting that where there is murder, mutilation and rape-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: -----and where women are being violated and limbs are being cut off, the world should turn its back and do nothing?