Written answers
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Department of Defence
Defence Forces Training
Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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100. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 15 April 2015, the training courses the military personnel of other states received here from the Defence Forces in the years 2011 to 2014, that is Israel, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, France, Greece, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, Chad, and Turkey; and the number of military personnel from each of those States that received training here in that time. [16067/15]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The table below contains details of the courses and numbers of military personnel from the specified countries that have taken part in military training in Ireland between 2011 and 2014.
| Country | Course | Number of Personnel |
|---|---|---|
| Israel | International Counter Improvised Explosive Device/Improvised Explosive Device Disposal (CIED/IEDD) Course | 1 |
| Colombia | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Surge Training* | 1 |
| Sri Lanka | UN OCHA Surge Training | 1 |
| Nigeria | International Military Police Course | 2 |
| Russia | International Human Rights Course | 1 |
| International Civilian Military Relations Course | 1 | |
| Operational IEDD Course | 2 | |
| Singapore | International Human Rights Course | 1 |
| United States of America | Command and Staff Course | 5 |
| International Human Rights Course | 1 | |
| International Civilian Military Relations Course | 3 | |
| International Military Police Course | 2 | |
| International CIED/IEDD Course | 2 | |
| Operational IEDD Course | 3 | |
| United Kingdom | International Civil Military Cooperation Course | 4 |
| Humanitarian Assistance Course | 12 | |
| International Civilian Military Relations Course | 3 | |
| International Military Police Course | 7 | |
| Ground Sign Awareness Course** | 4 | |
| France | International Civil Military Cooperation Course | 6 |
| International Human Rights Course | 4 | |
| UN OCHA Surge Training | 1 | |
| Cadet Training | 6 | |
| Homemade Explosives Course | 1 | |
| Greece | International Civil Military Cooperation Course | 1 |
| International Human Rights Course | 2 | |
| International Military Police Course | 2 | |
| Combat Tracking Instructors Course | 1 | |
| Ethiopia | UN OCHA Surge Training | 1 |
| UAE | Operational IEDD Course | 2 |
| Chad | UN OCHA Surge Training | 1 |
| Turkey | Operational IEDD Course | 2 |
| Total | 86 |
** Ground Sign Awareness is a Counter IED observation skill defined as the ability to identify SIGN (any evidence of change from the natural state that is inflicted upon the environment by the passage of Human, Animal or Machinery) and based on this make sound interpretations and deductions.
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