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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Staff (3 May 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...(PSS) office, under the direction of the Defence Forces PSS office, provide Pre-deployment Stress Management briefings to all Permanent Defence Force personnel deploying to the Mediterranean on OPERATION PONTUS, in accordance with the Defence Forces’ regulations. Prior to a ship’s return to home waters, Naval Personnel Support Services (PSS) office again provide post...

Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Apr 2017)

Brendan Ryan: ...to provide access for the Garda Associations to the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court; — that the agreement on 11th November, 2016, through an independent adjudicator, that crews serving in Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean should be paid the armed allowance of €15 per day; — that over 20 per cent of enlisted personnel in our Defence Forces...

Defence Forces: Motion (4 Apr 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Brendan Ryan: ...so, to ensure the need for members to rely on family income supplement becomes a distant memory. On 11 November 2016 an agreement was reached, through an independent adjudicator, that crews serving as part of Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean should be paid an armed allowance of €15 per day. These payments are still owed to the personnel and are long overdue. The Minister...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (23 Mar 2017)

Paul Kehoe: In response to the questions on Operation Pontus from both Deputies, I received the review of the 2016 mission from the Defence Forces last Friday week, before I went on my St. Patrick's Day trip to Lebanon. I have looked at the review but I have not had a chance to consider it. I am due to meet the Chief of Staff and the Secretary General of my Department next week or the following week...

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...very briefly, one of which is the banking union. The leaders reiterated the need to complete the banking union at the last European Council meeting and emphasised the importance of international co-operation on the design of common, prudential and supervisory standards for financial services. Financial services is an area that has come very much into our focus here. The Government is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Howlin: ...access to PDFORRA and the representatives of the Defence Forces in the legislation? Can the Tánaiste indicate when the adjudicator's payment of €15 per day, to be paid to the brave sailors on Operation Pontus and that was agreed last November, will actually be paid? The Government was happy to take credit for the great humanitarian work done by our Naval Service. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (15 Feb 2017)

Paul Kehoe: ...Representative Association for enlisted personnel, submitted a claim for an Overseas Armed Peace Support Allowance to be paid to personnel deployed to the humanitarian mission in the Mediterranean (Operation Pontus). In discussions, through the Conciliation & Arbitration Scheme, with officials from my Department agreement could not be reached on the payment of the claim and the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Staff (31 Jan 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Members of the Naval Service have already received the main allowance due to them for their participation in the humanitarian rescue operation in the Mediterranean. The issue of further recompense in respect of this mission was the subject of a claim under the Defence Forces Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme. There was adjudication hearing in respect of PDFORRA’s claim in relation...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

...peace and security and fulfil all other roles assigned by Government. This is achieved across three strategic dimensions: defence policy, ensuring the capacity to deliver and Defence Forces operational outputs. The Government's defence policy for the next decade has been set out in the White Paper on Defence, which was published in August 2015. Some 68% of the Defence Vote in 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Operations (26 Jan 2017)

Paul Kehoe: Members of the Naval Service have already received the main allowance due to them for their participation in the humanitarian rescue operation in the Mediterranean. The issue of further recompense in respect of this mission was the subject of a claim under the Defence Forces Conciliation and Arbitration Scheme. There was adjudication hearing in respect of PDFORRA’s claim in relation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigration and Refugee Crisis: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

David Stanton: ...has been the heroic work undertaken by our Naval Service personnel in the Mediterranean, who have rescued more than 15,400 migrants since the first deployment of the LE Eithnein May 2015 under Operation Pontus. Some members of the committee may have seen the programme "The Crossing" on RTE last Monday night. It showed the crew of the LE Samuel Beckettin the Mediterranean undertaking...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Naval Service Operations (13 Dec 2016)

Lisa Chambers: ...in larger integrated search missions rather than on isolated efforts would allow refuelling and resupply at sea, as well as integration with air support such as medevac. The Naval Service’s Operation Pontus is operating solely as a bilateral humanitarian mission and is isolated from associated EU operations such as the Frontex mission, the EU Common Security and Defence Policy,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (13 Dec 2016)

Paul Kehoe: ...the fleet, LÉ Orla, LÉ Ciara and LÉ Eithne all of which are over thirty years of age. The additional ship will allow the Naval Service meet its patrol day targets with due cognisance to the significant additional operational requirements for the Naval fleet under Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean Sea. The White Paper provides for the replacement of the current...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary)
Vote 36 - Defence (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2016)

Paul Kehoe: ..., during 2015, some 80% of enlisted personnel who retired on pension did so voluntarily, that is before their compulsory retirement age. The position for 2016 is very similar. This situation is a product of availability - for operational and manpower policy reasons - of the early payment of pension benefits immediately on retirement after relatively short periods of service and...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel Data (15 Nov 2016)

Paul Kehoe: ...are a total of 211 members of the Defence Forces with addresses in Waterford, of which 15 are serving overseas. The overseas figure includes one member of the Naval Service currently serving with Operation PONTUS in the Mediterranean.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Recruitment (9 Nov 2016)

Paul Kehoe: ..., amounting to 6.1% of serving personnel. There are currently 496 personnel serving overseas. There are 20 women overseas on UN peacekeeping duties and five females are deployed on humanitarian operations by the Naval Service in the Mediterranean on Operation Pontus. This amounts to 5.04% of the overseas personnel. The Irish unit commander to UNDOF, in charge of the 54th infantry group...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Service Medals (2 Nov 2016)

Seán Sherlock: 484. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason ex-members of the Naval Service who served on Operation Pontus on board LE Niamh from July to October 2015 are being excluded from medal ceremonies on 5 November 2016 to mark the service of Operation Pontus. [32651/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions Data (21 Jun 2016)

Paul Kehoe: .... Ten of the eleven missions in which the Defence Forces include both European Union member States, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members, and States who are members of neither organisation. Operation Pontus only involves Irish Personnel operating in co-ordination with the Italian authorities. Details of the contributors to all these missions are set out in the following table....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 574. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will respond to allegations that some members of the Defence Forces serving on missions, such as Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean, are being paid less than the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17052/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (13 Jan 2016)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 434. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will proceed with the Defence Forces operational service medal to be awarded for service on missions not governed by the United Nations, the European Union or similar mandates; and when the sailors on Operation Pontus and the members of the Defence Forces on the ebola medical mission in Sierra Leone will be paraded to receive the medal. [46649/15]