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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: I thank the ambassador and the Senator. I call on Deputy Ó Laoghaire.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: I thank the ambassador. I am the final speaker in this round. She mentioned that in the first six months of this year 30,000 guided aerial bombs, over 11,000 Shahed drones, 9,000 other types of attack drone and more than 1,000 missiles, including ballistic ones, were used. Will she talk about the drone attacks and give a little more detail? We have no conception of this here. It is just...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: When they discard their weapons, do they turn back for Russia?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: They disintegrate. They are once-off.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: They fly into structures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: Observing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: Intelligence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: Are the drones that have been sighted in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland observation drones? They are intelligence-gathering.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: Therefore many of the drones just have one mission, one use, and disintegrate on impact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: Okay. Does anybody want to go into a second round? Senator O'Loughlin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: On the trade piece the ambassador mentioned, could she let us know if there is anything this committee can do? If there is a trade delegation or anything like that in 2026, she could bring it before this committee. I am sure it is something committee members would consider positively. We are at her service if there is any engagement on trade that she wants to embark on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: Some Irish parliamentarians were part of the recent electoral observation mission in Moldova. We saw at first hand the interference that takes place, but on this occasion it worked out positively. Some years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine and thought it would overrun Ukraine in a matter of weeks. Three years later, the ambassador is here. As we say in Ireland, we have her back. This is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: Ms Gerasko can rest assured that more and more of her ambassadorial colleagues who represent countries in central and eastern Europe - it is not just the Scandinavian countries - who come here to meet informally with me or with some of the Chairs of the other committees or who come before this committee raise the issue of the heightened tension and levels of anxiety they feel because the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: The committee will now go into private session. I thank Her Excellency and her team for attending.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: How big is it? Is it as big as a helicopter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: I thank Ms Gerasko for her very comprehensive briefing. It is her first visit to the new foreign affairs and trade committee and we are very grateful for the time she has put into the very detailed presentation. It brings us right up to date. I will go straight to questions. Senator Ahearn has the floor.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: 366. To ask the Minister for Finance the proposals that have been implemented and not implemented, respectively from a report (details supplied); and when the proposals not yet implemented will be implemented. [55343/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently examine the case of a student (details supplied); the status of the bus route assigned to them given Bus Éireann will not answer repeated attempts to contact them; and if she will ensure that suitable transport support is provided to enable regular and safe school attendance. [54919/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: 447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will urgently examine a case involving a young child (details supplied) with complex medical needs who is currently without access to appropriate school transport; the status of the bus route assigned to the child given repeated unsuccessful attempts by both the family and this Deputy to obtain a response from Bus Éireann; and if he...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Oct 2025)
John Lahart: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to direct the State Examinations Commission (SEC) to introduce extra time as a reasonable accommodation for students with specific learning difficulties, including dyslexia and dyscalculia, in the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate examinations; the current status of the SECs review of this issue; the timelines for...