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Topical Issue Debate: Passport Applications (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome what the Minister said at the outset, that is, that he will consider this matter and hopefully find a pathway to allow Sofia to travel to Ireland. I genuinely hope he will be able to find that pathway as quickly as possible. It is specifically a matter of allowing passports for genuine cases in these instances until we have legislation in place. It is not a catch-all. As always...

Topical Issue Debate: Passport Applications (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I concur with everything Deputy Collins just said. It looks, on the face it, like a very simple case of an Irish citizen stuck in Spain, because her mother is Irish, looking for travel documents to allow her, at the young age she is at, to come back to Ireland, to enjoy the company of both parents, to hopefully grow up in Ireland and to avail of a passport when that opportunity arises next...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It was withdrawn from sale by the company.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is the Government buying it off the black market then?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that members of the Defence Forces are the only soldiers in the various missions in Mali that are required to take Lariam; and when he will abide by the instructions of Dáil Éireann to cease the use of the drug of first choice in preventing malaria in view of the fact that most other...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I did not ask the Minister of State to comment on current cases or in any way stray into those cases. I am well aware of them, as is the Minister of State, because we have raised those issues in the House. One part of this question is to do with Mali. The information I have is that a number of the 33 members of the Defence Forces in Mali have had to switch from Lariam to doxycycline...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I would never suggest that we should take on the role of medical professionals. I ask the Minister of State to look at the evidence throughout the world where the medical profession has told other militaries that there is a major concern over Lariam and that those who take it are at considerable risk of suicide and other mental health effects. That is why it is banned by other militaries:...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: UN Missions (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I hope the Minister of State will be able to answer my question in the positive. Can he reassure us that in 2020 there will be repeat of the cock-ups that occurred last year regarding personnel travelling out to and returning from UN missions whereby people were left waiting because the return of their loved ones was delayed by a week or so?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: UN Missions (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was not blaming the Minister of State for once.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I have no problem recognising that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I said 100 buildings needed to be destroyed in the morning.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There is €30 million left over from the Defence Vote that could be spent.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It was €29 million last year, €20 million the year before, €24 million the year before that and €25 million prior to that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 6. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the dilapidated condition of accommodation blocks that recruits and soldiers are required to live or stay in while receiving training in the Curragh; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that the Cadet School is operating out of prefabs and that the Army Ranger Wing is located in old stables...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question relates to the dilapidated condition of accommodation blocks for recruits and soldiers while receiving training at the military training facility in the Curragh. Is the Minister of State aware that the Cadet School is operating out of prefabs and that the Army Ranger Wing is located in old stables with no running water?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome all those projects. I visited several barracks recently, not just to the Curragh Camp, to which this question specifically relates, and seen the dilapidated state they are in. There is a need for a blueprint for the refurbishment and construction of facilities. I welcome the fact that, after 11 and a half years in the job and as this Government nears the end of its term of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In response to the final comment of the Minister of State, I can only go on the information I was given by the staff in the Curragh who brought us on the tour. It was not just me who heard the comments relating to the Army Ranger Wing. We were not allowed on that part of the campus because we were only there to visit the training wing. When will the Minister of State increase the number...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The sum of €25 million was left over from last year.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Army Barracks (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A total of €25 million was left from last year's budget.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (7 Nov 2019)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Everybody in the public service would, I believe, accept that there is a special case to be made for the Defence Forces because of the type of work they do, the hours they must work and their loyalty. The exodus from the Defence Forces does not have anything to do with full employment because members were leaving in droves even during the recession. It is a pity the Minister of State does...