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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (21 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: My question relates to the cost of providing Army security at Portlaoise prison. This relates to the fact that when the Army was originally deployed to the prison, there was a large number of prisoners. I am interested in finding out the number of prisoners who are specifically secured by the Army presence and whether the need for that presence is under review. As the Tánaiste knows,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for his question. I appreciate his ongoing commitment to issues at Portlaoise prison and the work he continues to do. The Deputy will be aware that the Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána have primary responsibility for the internal security of the State. Among the roles assigned to the Defence Forces in the White Paper on Defence is the provision of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (21 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I met the Tánaiste in December 2020, at which time there were 29 prisoners in the E block in Portlaoise prison. There are now fewer than ten. By mid-summer, the figure could be half that again. Does the Tánaiste not agree that is a radically different situation from the situation that caused the Army to be deployed to the prison in the first place? I welcome what he had to say...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: I take the Deputy's point. That is why I have acted on this. A deployment of 50 personnel was traditionally in situ at any given time, with a resource commitment of 100 personnel in total accounting for those resting or on stand-by. The current resource commitment is 16 personnel. Any resources released by the step-down in commitment will be redeployed into regenerational capacities and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (21 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: As I said, when I met the Tánaiste there were 29 prisoners on the E block. I predicted at that time that if no new prisoners came in, the numbers would drop to approximately ten by the end of 2023. That happened. To my knowledge, there are no prisoners in the E wing on remand, so there is nobody awaiting trial. There is nobody, to my knowledge, in the E wing who was out in bail. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: As I said to the Deputy, the traditional resource commitment of 100 personnel is now down to 16. I have instructed that there be a further phased reduction. There has been a substantial reduction in line with the security assessment and in consultation with the Department of Justice, following recommendations from the Commission on the Defence Forces. I am conscious, since I met the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (21 Mar 2024)

Question No. 10 taken with Written Answers

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: White Papers (21 Mar 2024)

White Papers

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: White Papers (21 Mar 2024)

James Lawless: 11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an overview on the implementation of the White Paper on Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13023/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: White Papers (21 Mar 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I ask the Tánaiste for an overview on the implementation of the defence White Paper and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: White Papers (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: The White Paper on Defence sets the defence policy framework out to 2025 and covers all aspects of defence within the broader security policy framework. Since publication of the White Paper in 2015, a total of 95 separate projects were identified for completion over a ten-year period. Project and programme management governance arrangements were put in place to monitor the ongoing status of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know where to start on this. I have been raising this issue for a long time in this Chamber. There is no ethical component to the purchasing of weapons from Israel or any other country that is at war. Given the slaughter that is happening in Gaza and the history of Israeli actions in respect of Palestine, there should never have been any purchasing of any equipment for the Defence...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: Further to that, a related matter is the services provided by Ireland to the Israel Defense Forces. Since 2018, six members of the IDF have trained at the United Nations Training School Ireland or under NATO's Partnership for Peace. It is abhorrent that Ireland has facilitated the training of members of the IDF over the past 13 years, throughout which Palestinians were subjected to brutal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: First, Deputy Carthy's point relates to a later question, if I am not mistaken.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: It relates to Question No. 9.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am referring to the point about training. It is a United Nations training programme, and we do not get to choose which members of the United Nations get to participate on a United Nations training programme. That was the situation there. The Deputies can colour these positions and put a sort of a spin on them, but my understanding is clear that members of-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: Would the Tánaiste do it with Russia? Would he have our troops training with Russian troops?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am just making the point it is open to countries to apply if there are United Nations training programmes. We do not get to decide who is or is not a member of the United Nations, although we can have a say in it if there are votes and so on. To respond to Deputy Ó Snodaigh, again, the trade law is there with respect to public procurement and tendering. I certainly have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is good that the Tánaiste has reservations, but reservations do not lead to the suspension of all trade with Israel and, in particular, any trade from Ireland to Israel in the form of dual-use goods. In the case of this question, it is to do with trade between us and Israeli companies where defence companies, such as Aeronautics Defense Systems, the company we bought from which the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: I concur with Deputy Ó Snodaigh. There is an onus. It is not acceptable that we would hide behind either EU or UN rules and say that because these are the rules, we are just going to allow ourselves to become complicit in what is an elaborate and extensive Israeli war machine. It is imperative the Tánaiste give a commitment that he is doing everything he can to disentangle...

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