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- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister of State for agreeing to facilitate members today - to an extent. I heard the Minister of State list all the occasions he has answered questions in the last year. I asked some of those questions. I asked about Jean-Claude Juncker and he did not mention PESCO in his reply at all. In most of the questions I asked which were not specifically to do with PESCO but involved...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am getting more frustrated. It is great that the Minister of State can quote from Irish Timesarticles. I can quote a headline from an article in July, "Ireland faces a big decisions on EU military co-operation".
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will use some more quotes for the Minister of State. If he wishes to go down that path, I can quote from replies given by him and the Taoiseach. They had the opportunity to say that Ireland would indicate that we would join PESCO. The article in July referred to facing a big decision. Usually, when the term "big decision" is used, the matter comes before the Dáil and there is...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
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- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will just say one thing; I am not interfering. The Minister of State did not answer any of the questions, which were quite specific.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I could go through them all again.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I asked questions and did not get answers.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On the Business Committee, I will not debate whether it is right or wrong. I am on the committee and was at the meeting. It is up to each Department to inform the Government Chief Whip when it would like motions to be taken. This was not on the list of indicative business which the Government Chief Whip had. Why this happened is a matter between the Minister of State and the Government...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It was not excluded for not reaching the minimum standard.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I understand that.
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am trying, as I have tried in this brief, to approach everything in a practical way, despite my suspicion of these moves. That is why, for instance, we did not vote against the European Defence Agency motions last week. I can see the practical benefits of co-operation. Will it be a requirement to make troops available for deployment as part of PESCO missions, some of which we have...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Finally I will bring up one issue which was mentioned, although there are probably more there. Does the Minister of State expect that this move by the European Union states will increase the militarisation of Europe by increasing the spend on military equipment? I do not necessarily mean only Ireland's spend, but that of EU states in general. I understand the logic of having similar...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: When was the decision made to join? Was it on 12 or 13 November? Up until then it had not been confirmed. The Minister, Deputy Coveney, was the first to come out and say that we would join, subject to Dáil approval.
- Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On a point of order, if we adopt this, we are expecting the committee to deal with it before tomorrow. We are already setting a deadline for tomorrow.
- Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We are limiting the time of the committee. This is beyond the fact that we were told there would be two hours in committee. Even if the committee sat all through the night until it reported back to the Dáil, it would be a case of the Dáil setting a time for it to engage in its consideration.
- Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It would not be allowing the committee to consider properly how to engage in detailed scrutiny.
- Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am opposed to the provision itself being put before the House but I am proposing an amendment to the motion which is that the proposal on PESCO would be referred to the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence sitting at 5.30 p.m. today for full and detailed consideration prior to it reverting to the Dáil for further consideration. This would allow the committee to...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Taoiseach knows how to waste money.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Deputy Crowe.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not going into the details. I am saying that we should have the same type of debate on this proposal as we would have when any significant change in our financial commitments is proposed. An additional consideration in this case is that the proposal has implications for our neutrality. In the course of the debate on the Lisbon treaty, a guarantee was given to the public that there...