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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I have never been given to personal vitriol but I will repeat what I said: disgraceful, deluded, disingenuous. Sweet words of war have to be called out for what they are. A choreographed agenda to lose our neutrality has to be called out. In theory, the UN, while faulty and while it must be changed with our help and involvement, is the only safeguard we have. The Minister constantly calls...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Howlin agreed that the UN needs reform. There is a problem here.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The fundamental problem is that there has not been a peacekeeping mission approved by the UN Security Council since 2014. We are on that council. The consultative forum was not prearranged. What was disgraceful was the attempt to stop it from convening and the attempts to undermine the legitimate debate and consultation to hear a wide variety of views, as we did hear over four days. It...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Referring to the hand-picked nature of the forum is not the same as demonising it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy did demonise it.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Question No. 8 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Smith: 9. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if further consideration will be given to the re-opening of Dún Uí Néill, Cavan, as a forward operating base as that region has a long land border with a neighbouring jurisdiction (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22083/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Smith: 50. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in view of the lack of an Army barracks in the central Border area, further consideration will be given to the re-opening of Dún Uí Néill, Cavan, as an Army barracks, given the recommendation in the Commission on the Defence Forces that the structure of the Army be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Smith: I spoke to the Tánaiste previously about the opportunity that exists to provide much-needed additional accommodation for our Army. Unfortunately, the most modern army barracks in Europe, which opened in 1990, was closed in 2012. As the Tánaiste knows, Dún Uí Néill is centrally situated in the Border region. The next Army barracks, Aiken Barracks, is to the east, in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 9 and 50 together. I thank the Deputy. I am aware he has raised this before. As he knows, the Commission on the Defence Forces was established on foot of a commitment in the programme for Government and the Government decision in December 2020 that agreed to its terms of reference and membership. The report was published on 9 February 2022. The...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Defence Forces
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will set out his proposals to alter the current triple lock mechanism governing the deployment of Irish Defence Forces overseas; when he proposes to introduce amending legislation on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21844/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: 43. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the timeframe in which he intends to publish a draft scheme in relation to his proposals to remove the triple lock neutrality protection; and if he intends to conduct both a public consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny. [22044/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 51. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the legislative and policy changes planned in order to proceed with his proposal to dismantle the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22039/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Tánaiste set out the specifics of the mechanism he is proposing to deploy Irish Defence Forces overseas when he removes the triple lock? When does he propose to introduce legislation to bring that about?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 7, 43 and 51 together. Last year's consultative forum on international security policy featured a well-informed discussion on the issue of UN peacekeeping and overseas deployments, which formed a central part of the publicly available chair's report. That report was presented to the Government on 17 October and a Dáil debate on the outcomes of the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Tánaiste for his response. I am still no wiser about the specifics of the proposal being drafted. Obviously, the Tánaiste has given instructions to his Department and the Office of the Attorney General on what exactly will replace the triple lock. Is it to be a double lock in simply removing the requirement a UN mandate? Is it to be an altered mechanism with some...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Deputy Carthy and many others are seeking greater engagement with the Opposition. The record of the House will show that the Tánaiste has denied requests to refer matters to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for detailed scrutiny and that votes on related but distinct matters have been taken as a singular vote. Deputy Carthy and other members of that...