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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

John Brady: There does not appear to be a sense of urgency or crisis within the Defence Forces. When the report was published this time last year, there were 8,468 members of the Defence Forces. As of the end of January, that figure stood at 7,907. The commission report could have been used to instil some sort of confidence that the Government is taking action. Members of the Defence Forces are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

John Brady: 1. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress that has been made towards implementing the working time directive for members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5155/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

John Brady: I am conscious that this is our first question time with the new Minister. I congratulate him on his new appointment. It is also our first question time since the tragic murder of Private Seán Rooney on 14 December so I will take this opportunity to offer my condolences to his friends, family and comrades and to wish Trooper Shane Kearney a speedy recovery from his serious injuries....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

John Brady: The Tánaiste will be very aware that the Defence Forces are now reaching breaking point with members leaving in great numbers. Over the last 12 months, since the publication of the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces, a further 500 members of the Defence Forces have left. There are very significant pressures on members of the Defence Forces. The critical need to fully...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

John Brady: That is simply not good enough. In the Government's own high-level action plan for the implementation of the commission's recommendations, the low-hanging fruit was considered to be the bringing forward of heads of a Bill with regard to the working time directive. The Tánaiste now tells me that work has not even started. The Government's legislative programme for the spring does not...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

John Brady: Why include it in the action plan when there was clearly no intent to bring it forward?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: On 24 November last year, Israel demolished Masafer Yatta school in south Hebron. That was one of more than 9,257 Palestinian structures that have been demolished illegally by Israel since 2009, displacing more than 13,345 Palestinians from their lands. This is a policy of destruction, demolition, displacement and dispersal of Palestinians to the smallest parcels of land, similar to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he proposes to take or is willing to support against Israel following the destruction of aid supplied by the EU and Ireland to Palestine by Israeli forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4406/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: What actions is the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs prepared to take in order to hold Israel to account for its continuous demolition and destruction of EU-funded structures in Palestine?

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: What analysis has taken place? I asked the previous Minister a number of times about increasing capacity, that is, opening new passport offices. I appreciate that a lot of the demand is online and that is where we are trying to drive people, but there will always be the need for people to walk into a passport office. What analysis has been done regarding opening a new passport office...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: 65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures being put in place to ensure that there will be no unnecessary backlog in the issuing of passports in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4614/23]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: The year 2022 was an unmitigated disaster when it came to the handling and issuing of passports. It saw many families, unfortunately, missing out on their holidays due to chronic delays in the issuing of passports. What lessons have been learned from last year's mess? More importantly, what actions will be put in place to ensure people get their passport in a timely manner and that we do...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: First and foremost, I pay tribute to all the staff in the passport office who did exceptionally good work in very difficult circumstances. When I say "difficult circumstances" I mean the failure to prepare and foresee what was coming post Brexit. There was always going to be a surge in the number of people looking to travel post Covid and we did not have the proper people or resources in...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: This is the most right-wing government in the history of Israel. It came to power on the back of an agenda that can only contribute to the worsening violence and to the way in which Palestinians are treated. We have seen since the start of the year that more than 35 Palestinians, including eight children, have been killed. Unfortunately, that has led, as the Tánaiste mentioned, to the...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: The Minister is right to be concerned about what is happening on the ground, but this has not just come about since the start of the year. It has been a systematic approach by successive Israeli Governments to displace Palestinians from their land, demolish and destroy their homes and disperse them into fragments of their land. We need to beyond the rhetoric of concern. We need definitive...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: 63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether efforts to further the search for peace in Palestine have been further hampered as a consequence of the inflammatory rhetoric and actions emanating from the newly elected Government in Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4613/23]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: I was beginning the think the Tánaiste had forgotten he had taken on the new role of Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: As it is my first opportunity to question the Tánaiste as the new Minister for Foreign Affairs, I would like to congratulate him on taking on that role. I look forward to our engagement over the next while. I will start off our questions with a question on foot of the new Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, taking office in an extreme right-wing Government....

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: I ask the Minister whether he sees prospects of moving a peaceful dialogue forward jeopardised now as a result of this new right-wing Government.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

John Brady: That dialogue has not worked up to now.