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Other Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 35. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has considered the reintroduction of the fixed period promotion and service commitment scheme which were successful initiatives up to their withdrawal by his Department in 2013.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44023/17]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Given the major shortfalls emerging in the Defence Forces at certain grades, will the Minister of State consider the reintroduction of at least one mechanism that worked in the past, namely, the fixed period promotion and service commitment scheme, which was done away with by the Department in 2013?

Other Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I understand what happened in the past but given the crisis at certain levels and in certain sections of the Defence Forces in terms of officers, particularly in certain key areas, surely the Minister of State will look again at reintroducing a system that worked and may help stop the flow of officers into the private sector through being either head hunted or believing there is no future for...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It will be too late by the time the Public Service Pay Commission or anybody else produces a report into this and the report is considered to address serious shortfalls we have seen in terms of the ability of the Air Corps to carry out its duties. It is not just the Air Corps. Does the Minister of State not accept that the Defence Forces are totally different to the vast majority of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Investigations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 29. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a commission of investigation into serious allegations of an ineffective or non-existent health and safety regime in the Air Corps will be established in view of the fact that a person (details supplied) stated in their report that the allegations made by the three whistleblowers could not be adequately dealt with in the type of informal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Investigations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Given that the Minister of State has now received the O'Toole investigation report, he is clearly attempting to fudge the issue as the report clearly states that the issues raised by the whistleblowers could not be adequately addressed. In light of this, will the Minister of State now set up an inquiry into the virtually non-existent health and safety regime in the Air Corps? In the past...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Investigations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The courts should not prevent the State or indeed the Minister of State from investigating what we have been discussing here and what has been brought before the courts by a small number of current and former officers. Let me set the scene: a dilapidated mechanics workshop; oil everywhere; carcinogenic chemicals spilt on the floor and around the sink; highly dangerous long-life chemicals...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Investigations (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Earlier the Minister of State called the reviewer in question incompetent for not having raised issues with him. Whatever the reviewer's remit, he seems to have not deemed himself competent to carry out the work and the Minister of State seems to have agreed as no extension or broadening of that remit was sought. If I were to say to the Minister of State that 100 premature deaths were...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Protected Disclosures (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on a person's (details supplied) contention contained within their report on health and safety procedures at Casement Aerodrome that they lacked the powers, experience and competence to investigate the allegations made by the whistleblowers; the reason the scope of a review was so limited despite assurances made by him in Dáil...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Pensions (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 60. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the reference within LRA 2 to an interdepartmental working group on the alignment of the mandatory public service retirement age with the payment of the State pension contributory; if the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform informed the Defence Forces representative associations during pay talks that, due to the unique...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reorganisation (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will review the decision to disestablish the 4th Western Brigade and the implications arising from the reduction in the number of Army brigades from three to two; if none of the three Army brigade commanders was consulted prior to the report that recommended the decision to reduce the number of Army brigades being lodged with them in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (18 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medication pain plasters were taken off the medical card; and if they can be reinstated onto the list of items covered under the medical card. [44228/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (17 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 572. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a detailed breakdown of a debt her Department is seeking a person (details supplied) to repay. [43597/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Eligibility (17 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the social welfare entitlements for which a person (details supplied) qualifies. [43816/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (12 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 188. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason or fault for which a building (details supplied) at Casement Aerodrome, Dublin was condemned and ordered out of bounds to all personnel; the date of condemnation; the person that signed the order condemning the building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43216/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (10 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 747. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the date on which the surviving veterans of the siege of Jadotville and the family members of deceased veterans will be presented with their medals; the details of the design; and the status of the medals. [42466/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Medals (10 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 750. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the date on which the surviving veterans of the siege of Jadotville and the family members of deceased veterans will be presented with their medals; and the design and status of the medals. [42212/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2017 to 2020: Department of Defence (5 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank Mr. Quinn for coming before the committee. There are a number of issues. It is important that we engage as early as possible in any of the plans around the Defence Forces. I have greater engagement with the Defence Forces since being made defence spokesperson in this Dáil and that has led to me raising major concerns about issues such as health and safety, and pay and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2017 to 2020: Department of Defence (5 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: There are a number of issues. The example of the Air Corps is the one of which most people are aware. There are problems in ordnance, engineering and other sections of the Defence Forces which are losing personnel. The Defence Forces as a whole are under-strength. The Reserve is another example and is well below its intended strength. Even with the current recruitment and the one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2017 to 2020: Department of Defence (5 Oct 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: On recruitment, I have not followed the most recent recruitment phases as closely as I probably should have. A number of people who fell outside the age bracket - one in particular - have contacted me during the years. They are graduates and fully skilled. It was a female in one case. Has there been any thought given to changing the cap considering that people are living longer and more...