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- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Minister of State will note that the question refers to the secretary general's recent comments, not his speech. I note on a report on the The Irish Times website that the Secretary General of NATO has invited the Irish people to join NATO - that the doors would be open for them to join. I repeat, has a complaint been made to hiss office? Has the Minister for Defence either publicly or...
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are you in favour of regime change?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: On a point of order, are you in favour of regime change?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Just to be clear, Minister, are you saying you are in favour of regime change?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Are you saying that regime change is a policy of the Government?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Let us be clear about this now.
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I brought up Libya, the country of millions of citizens.
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yes. What is your Government's foreign affairs policy?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: They should have sent another Minister here today.
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We need another Minister. What is your Government's policy on regime change?
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Those comments will have to be answered. Outrageous statements.
- Other Questions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Outrageous statements on regime change which defy Ireland's historical policy on neutrality.
- Other Questions: Army Equitation School (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Promoting the Irish horse is all lovely and fine but the concern here relates to recent reports about practices in the school. Can the Minister of State provide clarification on the wage scales and overseas travel allowances about which we have asked? We need the information because there has been public concern about practices in the school and we need answers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is extraordinary that Ireland, a supposedly neutral state, would commit eight members of the Defence Forces to work in an EU-NATO operation. There have been disclosures of human rights abuses. Human Rights Watch recently reported various incidents involving the Malian army during this period, including the summary execution of 13 civilians and the disappearance of others, as well as the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I refer to the UN Security Council resolution on Libya which did not stipulate that France and Britain engage in regime change and removal, but which is what they did. It has resulted in a crisis in Syria because Russia and China will not support a Security Council resolution on Syria. I refer to long-standing UN resolutions on Israel and the West Bank settlements, yet we are not sending...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I am glad Colonel Gaddafi is gone, but that country has been destroyed because of the abuse by NATO powers of a UN Security Council resolution. Every objective observer in the world agree with that assessment. Libya has been destroyed by that approach. There is no intervention in Syria because of the ridiculous behaviour of international powers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the reports from human rights organisations regarding executions and serious human rights abuses by the Malian military in the context of the impending deployment of members of the Irish Defence Forces to assist that same army. [13454/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve Abolition (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide details of his plans to abolish the Reserve Defence Forces; if he will provide the details of any circulars issued by his Department within the past 24 months on this issue. [13155/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Expenditure (14 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of security at each of the closed army bases per month since their closure; the total amount of moneys paid to each private security company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13154/13]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Black Market: Discussion with National Federation of Retail Newsagents (13 Mar 2013)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and I agree with their recommendations. We have tried to increase taxation on packets of cigarettes and put the revenue towards the health system and the consequences of an addiction to nicotine and cigarette smoking. Huge progress has been made internationally in this battle, particularly in recent decades. This trade fundamentally undermines...