Written answers
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Department of Justice, Equality and Defence
Overseas Missions
5:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 20: To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which the Army, Navy and Air Corps are currently represented in overseas deployments on UN missions; his proposals in this regard for the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27758/07]
Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Currently, a total of 460 members of the Permanent Defence Force are serving overseas, details of which are set out in the following tabular statement, which I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
Of the 460 currently serving overseas, 447 are Army personnel, 8 are Air Corps personnel and 5 are members of the Naval Service.
The 8 Air Corps personnel serve with the following missions: UNIFIL (2), EUFOR BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA (2) and KFOR (4).
The 5 Naval Service personnel serve with the following missions: UNIFIL (1), EUFOR BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA (1), KFOR (2) and ISAF (1).
The overall number of Defence Forces personnel serving overseas will substantially increase if the Government approves proposals, which the Minister for Defence expects to bring to Government shortly for possible Defence Forces participation in the EU operation in CHAD and the Central African Republic.
| Members of the Permanent Defence Force Serving Overseas as of 05 November 2007 | |
| Number | |
| 1. UN Missions | |
| (i) UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) HQ | 7 |
| UNIFIL 36th Inf Group | 50 |
| (ii) UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation) â Israel, Syria and Lebanon | 14 |
| (iii) MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) | 3 |
| (iv) UNMIK (United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo) | 4 |
| (v) MONUC (United Nations Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo) | 3 |
| (vi) UNOCI (United Nations Mission in Ivory Coast) | 2 |
| (vii) UNMIL (United Nations Mission in Liberia) FHQ | 2 |
| Total | 85 |
| UN Mandated Missions | |
| (viii) EUFOR (EU-led Operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina) | 41 |
| (ix) EUFOR TCHAD/RCA (EU-led Operation in CHAD and the Central African Republic) HQ | 11 |
| (x) KFOR (International Security Presence in Kosovo) Framework Nation | 57 |
| KFOR (International Security Presence in Kosovo) HQ | 11 |
| KFOR (International Security Presence in Kosovo) 37th Inf Group | 204 |
| (xi) ISAF (International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan) | 7 |
| (xii) AMIS (EU support to UN authorised African Union Mission in Sudan) | 3 |
| Total number of personnel serving with UN missions | 419 |
| 2. EU Missions | |
| (i) European Union Monitor Mission (EUMM) to the former Yugoslavia | 5 |
| TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONNEL SERVING WITH EU MISSIONS | 5 |
| 3. Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) | |
| (i) OSCE Mission to Bosnia & Herzegovina | 1 |
| (ii) OSCE Mission in Montenegro | 1 |
| (iii) OSCE Presence in Albania | 2 |
| (iv) OSCE Mission in FRY | 2 |
| (v) Staff Officer, Higher Level Planning Group, Vienna | 1 |
| Total number of personnel serving OSCE | 7 |
| 4. EU Military Staff | |
| Brussels | 7 |
| New York | 1 |
| 5. EU Nordic Battlegroup HQ | 12 |
| 6. Military Representatives/Advisers/Staff | |
| (i) Military Adviser, Permanent Mission to UN, New York | 1 |
| (ii) Military Adviser, Irish Delegation to OSCE, Vienna | 1 |
| (iii) Military Representatives to EU (Brussels) | 4 |
| (iv) Liaison Office of Ireland, NATO/PfP (Brussels) | 2 |
| (v) Military Representative to NATO/PfP Co-ordination Cell/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Mons, Belgium | 1 |
| Total Number Defence Forces Personnel Serving Overseas | 460 |
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