Results 11,341-11,360 of 12,596 for speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (1 Feb 2006)

Willie O'Dea: No public relations contracts were initiated, ongoing or completed in my Department during 2005.

Overseas Missions. (31 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The Deputy has raised a number of questions, and although my response will not answer some of them, I will get him the appropriate replies. I was informed of this case on Friday, 27 January 2006. I share the Deputy's concern that this case should have arisen. My first priority in dealing with this is the welfare of the troops who were attended to by this man. To that end the director of the...

Overseas Missions. (31 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The contract was initially for a period of three months commencing on 1 June 2004 and was subsequently extended to February 2005. Following a further tender competition a fresh contract, at €2,630 per doctor per week, was placed commencing 1 March 2005. During this time Medicare Solutions had supplied a number of other doctors for periods lasting from a few weeks to three months. This...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (26 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: As there is no postal system operating to or within Liberia, the Defence Forces have contracted a commercial courier to deliver Defence Forces post to and from the United Nations Mission in Liberia, UNMIL. This contract is for letter post only and is dispatched through this contract twice weekly — Monday and Thursday — throughout the year. Parcel post received by the Defence Forces for...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (26 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: A contingent of the Permanent Defence Force has been serving with the United Nations Mission in Liberia, UNMIL, since November 2003. Defence personnel serving with the mission are entitled to 21 days annual leave for the duration of their tour of duty, six months. Defence Forces personnel on deployment to UNMIL are free to apply for leave at any time and to any destination, which may be...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (26 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: My Department is not aware of any recent court case as referred to by the Deputy. In a High Court judgment given on 5 August 2003, by consent, the court found that my Department was not bound under the relevant leases to surrender any part of the leased lands at Ballincollig to the head landlord in question, is entitled to alienate the leased lands for the residue of the leasehold period and...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: As I indicated in my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 491 on 6 December 2005, red safety areas were first adopted at Casement Aerodrome following a review in 1992 by Aer Rianta, on behalf of the Department of Defence, of policy in relation to safety zones at the aerodrome and were introduced to ensure the safe and unobstructed operation of air traffic to and from Casement Aerodrome....

Written Answers — Army Deafness Claims: Army Deafness Claims (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: An award by the Army Pensions Board is the only means, other than litigation, by which retired personnel of the Defence Forces are provided with compensation for any injury sustained in service in the Defence Forces. There is no record of the named person at either of the addresses provided, ever having initiated a hearing loss compensation claim against my Department through the courts, nor...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: Defence Forces regulation R5, paragraph 6(g), prescribes that a member of the Garda Síochána shall be ineligible for enlistment in the Reserve Defence Force. This would also apply to members of the Garda Síochána wishing to apply for appointment as officers of the Defence Forces Reserve. Conversely an enlisted member of the Defence Forces Reserve who wishes to join the Garda Síochána...

Written Answers — Service Medals: Service Medals (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: Service medals and bars are issued to members of the Defence Forces as prescribed in Defence Forces regulation A9, new series, and administration instruction Part 19. The military authorities advise that members of the Army reserve, formerly an Fórsa Cosanta Áitiúil, and the Naval Service reserve, formerly an Slua Muirí, are awarded an Bonn Seirbhíse, the Service Medal, on completing...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: I should explain that the sick pay arrangements for civilian employees of my Department apply to the person concerned. In general, civilian employees may be granted up to six months sick leave at full pay in any period of 12 months and half pay thereafter subject to a maximum of 12 months sick leave of any kind — full pay, half pay or without pay — in any period of four years or less....

Written Answers — Defence Forces Retirement Scheme: Defence Forces Retirement Scheme (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The person referred to is in receipt of both a service pension under the Defence Forces pension schemes and a disability pension under the Army Pensions Acts from my Department. The schemes provide that, where a person in receipt of a service pension is granted a disability pension, the service pension must be reduced or abated, usually by an amount equal to one half of the disability...

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The following public appointments to State bodies under the aegis of the Department of Defence have been made since 1997. Appointed to Coiste an Asgard were Mr. William O'Mahony appointed on 1 May 1995 and re-appointed on 1 May 2000; Mr. Pat Hogan appointed on 9 June 1995 and reappointed on 9 June 2005; Mr. John Keohane reappointed on 23 June 1997 and terminated on 17 September 1997; Mr. John...

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: There are currently no public appointments vacant and yet to be made by my Department to State boards which come under the aegis of my Department, namely, the Civil Defence Board, Coiste an Asgard and the Army Pensions Board.

Written Answers — Military Intelligence: Military Intelligence (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1415 and 1416 together. Both the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces perform complementary roles in the protection of the security of the State. There is ongoing and close liaison between the Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces regarding internal security matters including in the intelligence field. Both agencies gather and share information and...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: Following a number of questions in the Dáil on this matter I undertook to have the military archive examined on the Niemba ambush and to revert with the findings. The question arising was whether Trooper Browne was killed at the Niemba ambush or whether he survived for a few days and was killed near a village where he was foraging for food. A recently published book, The Irish Army in the...

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The information sought by the Deputy is set out in the following table. Year Name Purpose Cost Report status â'¬ 1996/1998 O'Shea Business Consultants Provision of career change/outplacement support for members of Defence Forces availing of voluntary early retirement 386,615 Not Applicable 1996/1998 Staff Relations Services (Mr. D. Rochford) Chairman...

Written Answers — Superannuation Payments: Superannuation Payments (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The amounts collected by my Department in 2003, 2004 and 2005 by way of superannuation contributions — covering both personal and spouses' and children's superannuation benefits — are: Employee 2003 2004 2005 â'¬ million â'¬ million â'¬ million Military personnel(1) 4.888 5.208 5.544 Civilian Employees(2) 0.102 0.144 0.133 Civil...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: The following properties were disposed of by my Department during the period in question. Property Details of Disposal Purchaser No. 9 Married Quarters, Bere Island, County Cork Sold to successors in title to original landowner. John and Angela O'Sullivan, 288 Collins Park, Beaumont, Dublin 9 Premises at Killorglin, County Kerry Disposed of to Kerry County Council to...

Written Answers — Bullying in the Workplace: Bullying in the Workplace (25 Jan 2006)

Willie O'Dea: "A Positive Working Environment: an Anti Harassment, Sexual Harassment and Bullying Policy for the Civil Service" is the Civil Service policy for dealing with harassment, sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace. The original policy, introduced in July 2000, has been recently revised to reflect developments at national and EU level since the publication of the original policy, as well...