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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (6 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...and support for the role of the United Nations in the maintenance of international peace and security, is expressed in Ireland's long-standing tradition of participating in UN peacekeeping operations. This commitment is also expressed in our engagement in the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Ireland has participated in 16 separate peacekeeping missions in the years 2019...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...Golan Heights, thereby substantially contributing to fulfilling its UN mandate. In recent years, the region has encountered varying escalations of conflict, which have affected the UNDOF area of operations. Nevertheless, the UN Secretary General’s most recent report acknowledged the continued importance of both parties liaising with UNDOF, as part of a continuous effort to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: Again, I gave the Deputy four examples in a recent question. I spoke about the ship and Operation Sophia and so on-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (23 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ..., an issue we will deal with on a later question. We are participating in the EU battlegroup, as we have been doing for 20 years. To give another example, a subsequent EU peacekeeping operation in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia did not have a Security Council mandate and Ireland was unable to participate in that mission. More recently, in 2015, the European Union...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...for funding. The National Integration Fund (NIF) has the goal of supporting communities across Ireland to play a greater role in promoting the integration of migrants, and is open to organisations operating at regional and national level.Approximately €750,000 is committed per year, subject to the availability of funds. The minimum annual grant amount that can be applied for is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...integration. The National Integration Fund (NIF) has the goal of supporting communities across Ireland to play a greater role in promoting the integration of migrants is open to organisations operating at regional and national level.The NIF themes of enhancing employment opportunities for migrants, with a focus on language acquisition; promoting representation of migrants in politics; and...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I acknowledge the presence in the Public Gallery of Tegan Lyons, Sophia King, Lexi King and Amelia Kee from Mallow United. I am glad they are here because their achievements to date have been exceptional. They are accompanied by Paul Lyons and Philip King. They have won division 1 of the Cork Women's and Schoolgirls Soccer League. They have won the Denise McArdle Cup. They have won the...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Lynn Ruane: ...; - over the past decade the European Union has enacted policies which seek to prevent asylum seekers from reaching Europe’s borders and claiming asylum in Member States; - the European Union has operationalised a number of migration control policies, such as the Malta Declaration, which fund non-EU states, such as Libya, to intercept people attempting to cross the Mediterranean...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: United Nations (17 May 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...and support for the primary role of the United Nations, in the maintenance of international peace and security, is expressed in Ireland's long-standing tradition of participating in UN peacekeeping operations.  This commitment is also expressed in our engagement in the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Ireland has a proud tradition of participation in UN and...

Deployment of Naval Service Vessel to Participate in Operation Irini: Motion (25 Apr 2023) See 5 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to participate in the debate. I will start with context and numbers. Since search and rescue, SAR, under Operation Sophia was ended in March 2019, 8,059 people have gone missing in the Mediterranean. If we take a slightly longer period, 26,377 migrants are missing in the Mediterranean as of 19 April 2014. Some 619 people are missing to date, including 58...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (1 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...by a range of factors including adverse weather conditions and unscheduled maintenance, as well as staffing issues. At any one time the Naval Service can have a number of ships that are on active operations around the Irish EEZ whilst a number of others are undergoing routine resupply, maintenance and down time for ships companies. The high level of non-fisheries patrol days 2016-2018...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (27 Jan 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...be, and I have no plans to introduce additional medals in this regard. Additional mission specific medals, such as An Bonn Seirbhíse Idirnáisiúnta Oibríochta Óglaigh na hÉireann (The Defence Forces International Operational Service Medal) have been issued to personnel who have served on the humanitarian mission Op PONTUS in the Mediterranean. Subsequent...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Nov 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...the case of Seán Binder, which is being heard today. These issues were debated in the past two weeks. Ireland stopped its bilateral search and rescue in the Mediterranean Sea. Then we joined Operation Sophia, which then stopped doing search and rescue. We warned that would happen because the then Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Paul Kehoe,...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (20 Oct 2021) See 4 other results from this debate

Simon Coveney: ...Senator Higgins on similar issues to this following the Second Stage debate. At the outset it is important to clarify that the purpose of section 2 is to provide for the delegation of a level of operational control to the force commander of international UN forces. The legislation simply provides for the current de facto position. The Senator's amendment would neuter the effect of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021) See 5 other results from this debate

Lynn Ruane: ...conflict areas in 2016, military ships, including the Defence Forces' LÉ Róisínand LÉ Eithne, were assisting boats that smugglers had left stranded in the middle of the sea. In 2019, however, the EU mission named Operation Sophia, which called on those ships, was wound up. At the time, this drew criticism from organisations such as Amnesty International and the Irish...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...Service were heartbroken when Ireland stopped doing search and rescue and when we went from saving 8,500 lives in 2015, as part of a humanitarian mission, to only 1,888 in 2018 as we changed policy and joined Operation Sophia. There has been slippage in permanent structured co-operation, PESCO, where we are engaging in military procurement. What will that be used for by those in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (29 Jun 2021)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Minister for his time. I want to raise the issue of the Irish Naval Service. It has a very proud track record, not only in serving Ireland but within the EU and in Operation Sophia in the Mediterranean. As Cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in 2017, I had the pleasure of awarding the freedom of entry to the LÉ Eithnein Dún Laoghaire....

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: European Defence Agency Project and Defence Forces Service in the UN: Motions (30 Mar 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...;ireann and was referred to this committee for consideration: That Dáil Éireann approves Ireland’s participation in the European Defence Agency Project - Maritime Surveillance (MARSUR) Networking - Operational Support and Development (MARSUR III) pursuant to section 2 of the Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009. In commending the motion to the select committee,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (16 Dec 2020)

Joe O'Brien: The Community Employment (CE) materials grant is a contribution towards the running costs of the scheme and covers consumable services and materials necessary for the effective operation of the CE project. Materials funding is provided to CE sponsoring authorities in accordance with their requirements, where necessary and is paid on agreed and receipted expenditure only. The following are...