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Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Acting Chairman is interrupting my time but I have not made any charges, I said that-----

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----the current Garda Commissioner was an assistant commissioner from 2009 to 2011.

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am advising the Acting Chairman of what I said, if he would listen. From 2009 to 2009 the Garda Commissioner was the assistant commissioner dealing with the security matters which are covered in these allegations. I also believe the information I have-----

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: You have interrupted me. The information I have is that Garda whistleblowers' phones are being tapped up to the present day and those of journalists, Deputies and campaigners are routinely monitored.

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: How many of these were made in error? How many of these are being listened to and traced illegally? There is a range of questions on this----

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: -----but the opportunity to raise them is not being given to me.

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: You interrupted me for 20 seconds. I am finishing by using the minute that I was given.

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In fairness to the other Deputies, I will not finish my time, but you are disgrace in that Chair. You are totally partisan on this.

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: You did not allow me the time to speak and interrupted me by making a scurrilous comment.

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I refuse to do so.

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know which of the recent Garda Commissioners - Pat Byrne, Noel Conroy, Fachtna Murphy or Martin Callinan - the Tánaiste has just tried to hang by saying she understands these actions "relate to the early 2000s". The information I have is that these actions did not only happen in the early 2000s but that they have continued up to this day, and that implicates the current Garda...

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the Minister for coming to the House to address this issue. I raised this matter yesterday and what we have seen in the media so far is highly disturbing. I do not always believe everything or, indeed, anything that is published in the Irish Independentso I acquainted myself through other means with some of the background to the story. Apparently a highly decorated detective was...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will be very brief. There are other drugs available. Most other armies operating in sub-Saharan Africa use doxycycline or Malarone, in particular. Has the Minister of State ever asked the Health Products Regulatory Authority to peer review the use of Lariam by military services around the world, given that it is a number of years since it was first introduced? In recent times the vast...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Equipment (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Can the Minister of State give a commitment that the Defence Forces and the Department will engage in ethical purchasing when purchasing equipment in the future? Some €1.9 million has been spent on purchasing military drones from Israel and, over the last five years, €5.8 million has been spent on military equipment purchased by the Defence Forces from Israeli companies. These...

Other Questions: Civil Defence (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I support what the Deputy is calling for. Civil Defence should be properly resourced and housed in appropriate and modern facilities. They should be appropriate in the first instance and modernised as funding comes available. Such funding should always have been available. My question relates to other uses for Columb Barracks. Has consideration been given to using part of the site for...

Other Questions: Air Corps (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A letter to the committee from the Department of Defence states the Cessna fleet will be replaced by three larger aircraft, suitably equipped for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance tasks. It states the procurement process has commenced. Since we are dealing with the questions of funding and upgrading the fleet of the Air Corps, can the Minister of State...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: This question is to ask the Minister of State what he is doing to address the severe pay issues among low and middle ranking members of the Defence Forces who are crying out for help.

Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister of State accept that there is a problem with retention as a result of low pay and low morale? In answering another question earlier the Minister of State tried to equate the enthusiasm of applicants and raw recruits to being the morale of the entire Defence Forces. That is something he cannot do. Is he aware that from 2013, over 2,200 members of the Defence Forces have...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: He gave it out yesterday.

Other Questions: Defence Forces Remuneration (17 May 2017)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Last week, 9 May, the Minister of State's colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Leo Varadkar, responding to a question from my colleague, Deputy Pat Buckley, stated that 124 people who stated they were members of the Defence Forces were in receipt of FIS. The figure for the previous year was 127, and it was 49 in 2013. I hope that is helpful to the Minister of State and that...