Results 941-960 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: Just to cheer you up.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: Sorry.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: Out of many talents.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: We have gone over several of the specific issues. For all of us, the issue is urgency. It is lovely to set up structures, and every report we have had has referred to new structures almost in management-speak, but there has been little by way of delivery. The objective of the commission was to modernise our Defence Forces, stop the haemorrhaging of personnel and ensure the objectives set...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: We have done it for An Garda Síochána.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: In this supplementary question I wish to ask about the non-pay Vote. Something in the order of €60 million in non-pay additional funding seems to be very little in terms of the equipment requirements laid out, if we are going to do anything. The cost of the replacement of the two maritime aircraft would gobble up that amount. Would consideration be given to going down the road of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: 59. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the up-to-date position on the appointment of an independent chair for the oversight committee for the implementation of the Report of the Commission on Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5151/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: They are being mothballed.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: We are mothballing ships. That is the problem.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: The working time directive.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: It is not working.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: The reality is that whatever has happened to date is not working. We have been talking about the haemorrhaging of staff for a very long time and we are now at a critical level. The Tánaiste would have read the remarks of Lieutenant Colonel Conor King at the annual delegate conference of the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers, RACO, when he said that given the lack of...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: We have been hearing that sort of answer for a very long time. It is not having any effect. We are losing the skilled personnel that it has taken years to train. We have not got a solution to that; in fact we are going backwards. How many Naval Service vessels are actually patrolling our waters right now? Before we get to a strength of 11,500, when does the Tánaiste expect the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: How many vessels are at sea or available for seagoing work?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to address recent reports that two further ships are to be taken out of service due to the lack of sailors to man the vessels; the progress made to date on measures to retain members in the Permanent Defence Force; the overall strength of the PDF in each of the past six months; when he expects the authorised strength level to be...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: I will also begin by wishing the Tánaiste well in his new role as Minister for Defence. I also associate myself with the condolences expressed to the family, friends and comrades of the late Private Seán Rooney. My question is simple. What are the Tánaiste's plans to arrest the ongoing haemorrhaging of staff from the Defence Forces, which we are aware of? In particular,...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: 25. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has met or is intending to meet with a group (details supplied) since assuming office as Minister. [5153/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: 42. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the specific additional equipment for the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps that he expects to acquire during 2023; the capital allocated to these acquisitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5152/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: 65. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress to date in the implementation of the Working Time Directive in the Defence Forces; if he intends to apply the Directive to the Defence Forces in the same way as it is applied to An Garda Síochána, the Prison Service and other public sector organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5154/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (2 Feb 2023)
Brendan Howlin: 72. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to work with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to bring the derelict houses in the Curragh Camp, County Kildare, back into the State housing stock and make them available once again for service members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5150/23]