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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...spots. He spoke about interoperability. Part and parcel of joining up to PESCO is interoperability, which means working with like-minded states and being able to relate to them, instead of just landing on the ground, participating in a mission, and not having the experience of working with like-minded states. It is so important that we participate in this and work with like-minded...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Registration of Title (9 Nov 2017)

Paul Kehoe: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the case of persons (details supplied) will be finalised with the Land Registry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47594/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Relief Schemes (24 Oct 2017)

Paul Kehoe: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is compensation available for a person who spent €17,000 on remedial work on their land following damages caused by flooding of the River Slaney; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44998/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (18 Oct 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...Forces personnel was to visit the many exhibition stands involving the wide range of companies that the Defence Organisation deals with on a regular basis. These include companies involved in the land, sea and air environments, all of which are of interest to the Defence Organisation given the various roles of the Defence Forces at home and overseas. It was also an opportunity for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Land Transfers (17 Oct 2017)

Paul Kehoe: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the transfer of agricultural land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43778/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cycling Facilities Provision (4 Oct 2017)

Paul Kehoe: My Department is not considering any proposals to introduce a cycle lane on Curragh lands. Primary responsibility for the roads in the Curragh lies with Kildare County Council. If the Council wishes to approach my Department with any such proposals, my officials are available to engage with them on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (20 Sep 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ..., I approved a positive recommendation from my Department for the attendance of the ship. It is not considered that the attendance of the ship at the event compromised our neutrality in any manner. In that regard, it is clearly understood that Ireland will continue to maintain a policy of military neutrality characterised by non-membership of military alliances and non-participation in...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (11 Sep 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...for the current fleet of 80 Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) which will seek to ensure viability of the fleet out to 2030. A contract was agreed in December 2016 with General Dynamics European Land Systems – Mowag, the original manufacturer of the fleet based in Switzerland, for a maintenance and upgrade programme. The value of the contract is €55m exclusive of VAT. A...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Curragh Plains Representative Forum (26 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...includes clean-up operations following illegal camping and dumping, the disposal of rubbish and cutting of nettles and thistles. The response to illegal dumping is managed by the Department land staff in cooperation with the County Kildare Litter Warden, and in line with the obligations of the Litter Pollution Act 1997. As I have alluded to previously, given the size and openness of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: I wish to inform the Deputy that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has primary responsibility for overflights and landings of foreign military aircraft. This has been facilitated for 50 years or more. I presume that when the Deputy speaks about what has happened in Iraq and whatever is on board the planes, he is aware that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Deployment (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...provided a service on 167 occasions since 1 January 2017. It is not my area of responsibility. It is a matter for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which has primary responsibility for overflights and landings of foreign military aircraft, and for An Garda Síochána after that.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...to my Department to date. On the 27th April this year Mr. Simon Coveney T.D., the then Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, launched the online Rebuilding Ireland Housing Land Map as a key part of the Rebuilding Ireland initiative. Columb Barracks has been included as one of the publicly owned sites which may have the potential for housing development. To...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks Closures (11 Jul 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...in an ongoing programme of barrack consolidation since 1998. This programme has brought to 14 the number of barracks closed to date. The total receipts from disposal of installations and lands from 1998 to date amount to approximately €1 20 million. To date the sale has been completed of the following barracks - Clancy (Dublin), Castleblaney, Ballincollig, Fermoy, Naas,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks (20 Jun 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...Barracks, Galway are connected into the Galway City sewerage system. The Department of Defence in a licence agreement dated 4 February 1975 permitted Galway County Council to lay a sewer through Department lands adjacent to Dún Ui Mhaoilíosa (Renmore) Barracks, Galway. In accordance with the terms of the licence, Galway County Council is fully responsible for the sewer.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: National Mitigation Plan (30 May 2017)

Paul Kehoe: The objective of Ireland’s first National Mitigation Plan is to set out what Ireland is doing and is planning to do to further the national transition objective set out in the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015. Following a statutory public consultation in March and April, work on the development of the first Plan is nearing completion and my colleague the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flood Relief Schemes (23 May 2017)

Paul Kehoe: 583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available to a person whose land has been lost to erosion on the River Slaney in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24703/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (18 May 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...differ from country to country and that timelines for processing of applications can also vary, depending on the type of aircraft, the nature of the cargo and whether the aircraft in question proposes to land in or to overfly the country in question. I can assure the Deputy that the usual procedure in obtaining diplomatic clearance for the Air Corps to fly was followed by the...

Other Questions: Civil Defence (17 May 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...vacant premises at Columb Barracks and asked officials to come up with a plan. As the Deputy noted, the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government recently examined all vacant lands in the country for housing. My Department is dealing with that matter. I have asked the officials in the property management section to proceed with the sale of Columb Barracks. For...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (17 May 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...tasks.  The Government decision provided that the deployment is subject to finalisation of a bilateral arrangement with the Italian authorities in relation to the operation of the mission and the landing of persons rescued. Standard practice, since the first deployment of the Naval Service to the Mediterranean, has been that the Naval Service vessels do not depart their base in...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Contracts (17 May 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...force protection by performing missions which do not demand the use of manned aircraft. UAVs have a wide range of civilian and military applications, particularly in the area of surveillance over land and sea. They have the ability to perform tasks that manned systems cannot perform, either for safety or for economic reasons. UAVs can efficiently complement existing manned...