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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (13 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reconsider the household benefit package criteria for persons under 66 years of age that are living with another adult with the view to including those in receipt of jobseeker's allowance as a qualified adult; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53350/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 43. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps taken by his Department to address the pay and conditions of the Defence Forces personnel as highlighted by a group (details supplied) in a recent protest. [53034/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question is to ascertain whether the Minister of State has taken any steps to address the poor terms and conditions experienced by members of the Defence Forces, as highlighted a fortnight ago by the Wives and Partners of the Defence Forces, WPDF, organisation when it organised a 24-hour vigil outside Leinster House on Wednesday, 29 November.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister of State accept the pay is so low that one in five members rely on social welfare payments to cover food and living costs? Does he accept that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of Defence Forces members qualifying for the family income supplement payments and that some Defence Forces members sleep in their cars because they cannot afford to get petrol to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will ask those who have supplied me with the information to provide the examples. However, sometimes there is a concern that if a problem is highlighted it might lead to victimisation. One issue the members have requested that the Minister of State might address is that the duty and sea-going allowances be fully restored to the previous rate, from €20 to €75 for a 24-hour...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Today’s business shall be No. 31, Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017 - Second Stage (resumed), if not previously concluded; No. 10, motion re change in ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 11, Financial Resolution re Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016; No. 12, motion re EU recast reception conditions directive 2013/33/EU - referral to committee; No....

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Taoiseach's nose is getting bigger there.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 58. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action he has taken further to the Dáil Éireann motion prohibiting the use of Lariam as a drug of first choice for soldiers deployed overseas in areas in which exposure to malaria is a risk. [52874/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Reports (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 61. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the chemical exposure report 1994 to 2005 produced in 2014 by a person (details supplied); if a copy of that report was made available to the independent reviewer to allow them carry out a full assessment of the way in which the Air Corps dealt with recent whistleblowers' statements; if not, the reason...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps Operations (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 76. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the steps taken by his Department to increase the capacity of the Air Corps to provide priority air transfers for medical treatment in view of the fact that the service was suspended in 2016. [52872/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 81. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his Department's Estimates for each year since 2008; the percentage of GDP and GNP it was annually; if he has had communications with the Minister for Finance to increase it to the EU average of 1.4% or the proposed EU 2% of GDP annually in line with NATO countries projected military spend and with President Donald Trump's pronouncements....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 85. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when the State Claims Agency interviewed Air Corps personnel in Baldonnel in 2013 that its attention was drawn to the fact that personal protection equipment was not being supplied to personnel and that it commissioned the formation safety office with performing a retrospective examination of at...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Claims Agency (12 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 128. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 14 November 2017, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the State Claims Agency commissioned a retrospective report covering 1980 to 2007 to be carried out by the formation safety office Air Corps on much of Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell, which was issued on 6 February 2014; if the State Claims...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I wish to share time with Deputy Crowe. I will take ten minutes and he will have five minutes.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I make no apology for supporting the Defence Forces overseas operations. The simplistic claptrap we heard from Deputy Lisa Chambers is a disgrace. It is obvious that she has not listened in this Chamber or in the committee to anything I or others have said. I know of nobody in this Dáil who wants the Defence Forces to run on a shoestring budget. Nobody in this Chamber wants Irish...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I can go a long way back into history-----

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----including the military coup carried out by Fianna Fáil in 1932.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This is relevant because it is the history of the Defence Forces. It has been an honourable history-----

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If Deputy Chambers wants a history lesson I can sit her down and give her one at some stage. I am a history teacher. I understand history.

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am sorry. I will address the Chair. Those of us in this Chamber want the Defence Forces to have the equipment, pay and conditions and protection required when they carry out humanitarian operations overseas as part of their laudable history of peacekeeping. It is when one starts interfering with the sovereignty and neutrality of the Irish State in the way outlined in the motion that we...