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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...

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)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: A Chathaoirligh-----

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.