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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: I understand the Tánaiste has met other stakeholders. I believe we have a particular duty to the Women of Honour group, especially given how the review into the situation of these women used language of a type and depth that I suspect has not been seen in very many other reports that have come to the House. Earlier we spoke about recruitment and retention. I have met these women....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: Have they been recording the working times?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: I ask the Tánaiste to outline his intentions regarding the acquisition of primary radar; if matters have progressed to the extent that either the Office of Government Procurement or the contracts branch of the Defence Forces are actively working in support of this; and if the Defence Forces have begun the work of identifying suitable locations for installations.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: The figure that is bandied about for the cost of this primary radar is €300 million. The Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath, referenced the €176 million capital budget for the Defence Forces in budget 2023 and stated that the Government was going to prioritise the development of our primary radar capability. I understand that, as of March, an initial planning team has been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: I heard it in the media and I just thought that maybe------

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: A starting point.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: In the report on the high-level action plan that was published in March of this year, the recommendation regarding primary radar is accepted in principle rather than being accepted, as most of the other recommendations were. Delivering primary radar really is a prerequisite in ensuring the surveillance of Irish-controlled airspace. I have spoken to members of Air Corps. There is a worry...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: The number of personnel in the Permanent Defence Force, PDF, stood at 8,828 in 2019. In March of that year, it was 8,366 while today it stands at what I had understood to be 7,797, although I believe the Tánaiste gave a different number.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: It is 7,764. I note that in the response to a recent parliamentary question tabled by my comrade, Deputy Carthy, the Tánaiste stated that his immediate focus would be on stabilising the number of personnel in the Defence Forces. I welcome that because retention is the most important thing. We have to retain the military personnel who are already trained and in whom money has been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy Carthy. Will the Tánaiste outline the establishment figure for the Army, the Naval Service and the Air Corps, the current number in each branch and the numbers in the years 2020, 2021 and 2022?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: In April, Lieutenant Colonel Conor King, general secretary of RACO, said that we cannot recruit ourselves out of a retention crisis. He is right because we would just be putting water into a leaky bucket. The figure I have for the number of discharges in 2022 is 891. That was higher than the figure for any year since 2017. The Tánaiste mentioned the working time directive at a recent...

Education Costs: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am very glad to hear the Minister will not oppose the motion because our asks are quite straightforward. We have put them to her this evening on behalf of people across north Kildare, including Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth and Naas, who are already struggling with the vicious series of mortgage rate hikes, exorbitant rents and a deep cost-of-living crisis. Even to get out your front door...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: I have a question on the consultative forum on international security, which starts this week. Up until the welcome intervention from our Uachtarán, this was very much a conference for the select few by the selected few. I have already expressed concern around that. I thank the President formally for his intervention on behalf of all the people. I would also-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: Okay. I have made the point several times in the Dáil that this forum would be over by the time people knew about it, as opposed to a citizens' assembly. Now that the necessary public attention has been brought to the matter, I have been contacted by some doves, as opposed to hawks, who have told me they would like to attend but there are no spaces available. Is there any chance the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Pre-budget Submission: Dóchas (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: Deputy Carthy and I met a member of World Vision or Christian Aid a couple of weeks ago in Buswells Hotel. She spoke to us about the ratio of debt developing countries have to pay to the IMF. It is frightening. While the witnesses' presentations today were very good, they leave you feeling a bit hopeless at times. The portion of debt these countries have to pay to the IMF is appalling....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Overseas Development Aid (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the specifics of how Ireland 'positively influences' the IMF in the context of overseas aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29075/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Overseas Development Aid (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline how Ireland challenges any conditionality in IMF programmes that undermines our own, stated commitment to public services, our own aid programme and those concerning women's rights in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29076/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Overseas Development Aid (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland will conduct an assessment of the impact of IMF programmes in the context of both gender and human rights; if Ireland will examine whether or how they undermine Irish Overseas Aid objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29077/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (20 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the proposed development of the lands immediately surrounding Castletown House will not impact negatively on the structure and its historical, aesthetic, architectural and cultural integrity; if he will publish the expert basis for that satisfaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29679/23]