Results 7,161-7,180 of 51,889 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I am confident that if additional expenditure comes in by dint of, say, a project having been completed earlier, we will manage it and there will not be an issue for us.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: That is because the Minister has not allocated the additional NDP capital, as he made clear in the summer economic statement. He is putting an additional €250 million into capital but he did not allocate that at the time of the budget. Discussions are now going on between Departments in respect of that. We made clear at the time of the €176 million announcement that that...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: The point is the NDP is there. We were happy with the €176 million and that is the baseline. We have told the Defence Forces to keep going with the infrastructural projects on the campuses. We want projects to go through the system and be designed. Relatively speaking, the capital allocation for defence, compared with that for other high-spending Departments, is not huge. In the...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: No.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: They could be or it could be loose talk, but there is no way they could identify a company because we are nowhere near procurement. This is very complex and it is not something the Defence Forces have gone at previously. In fact, we may work with other countries that have done this previously and could tell us the mistakes they made or advise us not to go down a given route. We are going...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I have not seen the reports the Deputy has seen.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I will put it this way. We might get a phone call to say there is something in the Examineragain. That is my own newspaper.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I jest. It is a Corkonian expression, although they put the word "Irish" before "Examiner", but that is a long story. No, seriously, people speculate all the time.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I think this is important, though. There is no delay on our side in terms of resources or anything like that. I do get the sense in the Department, however, that this is a seriously challenging project. The military has to gear up. Our Defence Forces have to gear up. Our Department has to gear up in terms of capacity. We have to talk to other countries that have gone down this road just...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: We are very-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: We have various-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: We have Air Corp surveillance. We have the new C295 maritime patrol aircraft and they do maritime surveillance. However, we do not have radar.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: It is a huge vulnerability. It is a very significant vulnerability.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: No. I am sorry; I mean that is a matter for other countries. All of the speculation on that was erroneous, too, by the way, and wrong in terms of what was alleged about the Royal Air Force, RAF, and so on, so no. What happens in terms of maritime surveillance is-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: What?
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: The world is monitoring the world, Deputy.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: Everybody is watching everybody. It is-----
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: I cannot tell the Deputy. I do not know the depths of the intelligence system of any particular country or what they are up to. However, this is what routinely happens. If, for example, we take the maritime traffic through our seas or exclusive economic zone, we might spot stuff and alert the French or say it to the British or somebody else. This is a routine that goes on. Countries...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: That is case headings, again, because of the reduced numbers.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024) Micheál Martin: It is capability development more generally. The price for the purchase of defensive equipment, aircraft, naval vessels and ammunition takes in the contractual commitments to multiannual contracts.