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Question· writtenPQ 269asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
269. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Defence to detail the potential Defence Forces overtime, associated costs and security planning for the upcoming Presidency of the EU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17219/26]
Question· writtenPQ 268asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
268. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Defence if the Naval Service has submitted a fully worked up business case setting out full infrastructure requirements for both marine and support related elements for an east coast base for the Naval service, to detail the infrastructure requirement included in the business case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17135/26]
Question· writtenPQ 267asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
267. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Defence if her Department has received a Naval Service regeneration plan, if she can provide details of the plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17134/26]
Question· writtenPQ 266asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
266. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Defence her plans to permit Royal Navy vessels to patrol Irish waters during Ireland's forthcoming Presidency of the Council of the European Union, as reported recently (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16871/26]
Question· writtenPQ 265asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
265. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Defence the protocols in place at her Department headquarters in Newbridge, County Kildare to facilitate communication with those wishing to engage by phone with Department staff; the reason callers are put on hold and left on hold for excessive periods of time, and calls that need to be transferred are once again delayed or not completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16673/26]
Question· writtenPQ 264asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
264. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Defence the options available to a person (details supplied) in a pensions matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16637/26]
Question· writtenPQ 263asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
263. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Defence to confirm, in respect of her Department’s published quarterly reports of procurement-related payments or purchase orders over €20,000 (details supplied), where such reports are published in PDF format but originate from an Excel or similar spreadsheet file, that the underlying data was fully expanded and validated prior to conversion so that all columns including supplier names and descriptions are fully visible and readable in the published document; to clarify whether any quality assurance process is applied to ensure that data is not truncated or partially obscured in the PDF version; and where the source file exists in machine-readable format, whether her Department will make the original Excel or CSV file available alongside the PDF in the interest of transparency, accessibility and data re-use. [16582/26]
Question· writtenPQ 262asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
262. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Defence to provide the web link to her Department’s Q4 2025 published report of purchase orders/payments over €20,000, in line with the FOI model publication scheme requirements; the date on which this report was published; and if it has not yet been published, the planned publication date. [16565/26]
Question· writtenPQ 261asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
261. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Defence to list all schemes, funding programmes, capital funds, grant streams or other expenditure headings administered by her Department in 2025 and 2026 which result in allocations, awards, or spending that can be identified with a specific geographical location including county, district, town, or project site, to group these by funding stream or programme heading; to indicate, for each scheme, whether details of allocations or awards are published online; and if so, where such information may be accessed. [16547/26]
Question· writtenPQ 260asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
260. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Defence the capital and current funding required for the capacity of the Joint Induction Training Centre at Gormanston Barracks to be able to handle 1,250 new recruits when fully operational. [16344/26]
Question· writtenPQ 259asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
259. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Defence the recruitment criteria for the Irish Defence Forces; the recruitment per year from 2020 to date in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16336/26]
Question· writtenPQ 258asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
258. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if she will publish the annual reports for each year, 2006 to 2016, of the State Claims Agency Risk Management Liaison Group which carried out audits of the Air Corps Health and Safety procedures and so on, and commended them annually for being best in class and being leaders in the H+S field; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16298/26]
Question· writtenPQ 257asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
257. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence her views on whether a major conflict of interest existed between 2006-2016 with the State Claims Agency being centrally involved in both assessing the health and safety regime in the Air Corps through its Risk Management Liaison Group and being the lead in deciding on behalf of the State to fight claims against in which failings in that same health and safety regime were being questioned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16296/26]
Question· writtenPQ 256asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
256. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence when the occupational cohort study into mortality in the Air Corps will be carried out over two years ago by public health expert (details supplied) will be published; and if not, the reason. [16295/26]
Question· writtenPQ 255asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
255. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if it is intended to carry out a follow-up occupational cohort study into mortality in the Air Corps given that the previous one carried out by public health expert (details supplied) two years ago would seem to suggest that the need for a further, more in depth study be carried out. [16294/26]
Question· writtenPQ 254asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
254. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if an occupational cohort study into mortality in the Air Corps was ever carried out, as was recommended to the Air Corps two years ago by public health expert (details supplied) given that between 1980 and 2026, there have been around 700-800 deaths of serving and retired personnel, of whom it has been suggested that 115 of them died prematurely. [16293/26]
Question· writtenPQ 253asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
253. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence the number of cases involving the Air Corps each year were recorded with the State Claims Agency for each of years between 2006 and 2016; and the number of them that were contested, settled, lost or withdrawn in the same period. [16291/26]
Question· writtenPQ 252asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
252. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence the number of cases for involving the Air Corps each year are recorded with the State Claims Agency for each of the past ten years; and the number that were contested, settled, lost or withdrawn in the same period. [16301/26]
Question· writtenPQ 251asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 March 2026
251. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if the State Claims Agency Risk Management Liaison Group still carries out annual audits of the Air Corps Health and Safety procedures and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16300/26]
Record· debate2026-02-26published
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
Joint Committee on Defence and National Security
Question· writtenPQ 649asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
649. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has ever conducted a study of the health of serving or former members of the Air Corps to ascertain whether there is a greater concentration or a clustering of unusual or uncommon cancers or other ailments among this cohort of the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16170/26]
Question· writtenPQ 648asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
648. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health whether her Department has conducted a study of mortality of serving or former members of the Air Corps to ascertain if they are in line with the general population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16169/26]
Question· writtenPQ 239asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
239. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence whether her Department has conducted a study of mortality of serving or former members of the Air Corps; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16168/26]
Question· writtenPQ 238asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
238. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence the distribution of the planned strength of 11,500 personnel across the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps; and the date by which this target is planned to be achieved. [15690/26]
Question· writtenPQ 237asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
237. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence the estimated fiscal impact on the Defence Vote of recruits discharged by purchase within 90 days of induction in each of the years 2020 to 2025. [15689/26]
Question· writtenPQ 236asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
236. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence whether her Department maintains a unit-cost model for recruitment and training of General Service Recruits; and if so, the most recent estimated cost per recruit by service and by cost heading. [15688/26]
Question· writtenPQ 235asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
235. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence the methodology used to calculate the “turnover rate of approximately 7.6% in 2025”; the numerator and denominator used; and the turnover rate for each service separately in each of the years 2020 to 2025, [15687/26]
Question· writtenPQ 234asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 February 2026
234. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Defence the projected strength of the Permanent Defence Forces for each of the years 2026, 2027 and 2028, broken down by Army, Naval Service and Air Corps; and the projected inductions and projected discharges underpinning those projections. [15686/26]
Question· writtenPQ 27asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 February 2026
27. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Defence to set out the policy in her Department regarding the use of artificial intelligence; whether AI is used or permitted in drawing up policy documents, speeches, answers to parliamentary questions, press releases or for other official documents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15612/26]
Question· writtenPQ 26asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 February 2026
26. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Defence the legislation that underpins the activities of the Irish Military Intelligence Service (IMIS); the name of the current Director of the IMIS; the number of members of the Defence Forces and civilian staff serving in the IMIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15588/26]
Question· writtenPQ 25asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 February 2026
25. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Defence the progress which has been made in locating naval patrol vessels at the Carlisle Pier in Dun Laoghaire, as announced by the Minister for Defence in October 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15587/26]
Question· writtenPQ 24asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 February 2026
24. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Defence if she has spoken with the UK Defence Secretary to date in 2026. [15445/26]
Question· writtenPQ 23asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 February 2026
23. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Defence to provide details of all occasions in which she or her predecessors exercised the power conferred on them under Section 15(3) of the Climate Action & Low Carbon Development Act (2015), which states that ‘the relevant Minister may, from time to time, give a direction to a relevant body requiring it to adopt such measures as are specified in the direction for the purposes of compliance by the relevant body with subsection (1)’; to provide the details of the direction given in all cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15239/26]
Question· writtenPQ 22asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 February 2026
22. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Defence if the maximum age limit to join the Defence Forces will be increased from 39 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15214/26]
Question· writtenPQ 281asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
281. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 412 of 4 February 2026, the actual number of ex-Army personnel subject to abatement at this time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15209/26]
Question· writtenPQ 280asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
280. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Defence to provide an update on the progress of a project (details supplied); when the ship will be delivered following a proposed public tender competition for a multi-role vessel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15153/26]
Question· writtenPQ 279asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
279. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Defence to outline the proposals she is implementing in relation to recruitment in Defence Forces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15148/26]
Question· writtenPQ 278asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
278. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Defence in light of the annual establishment of illegal encampments on the Curragh Plains in late Spring early Summer, the strategies in place to prohibit these encampments occurring again in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15060/26]
Question· writtenPQ 277asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
277. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Defence the progress that has been made towards implementing the Programme for Government's commitment to introduce a new management system for the Curragh Plains; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15059/26]
Question· writtenPQ 276asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
276. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Defence her views on a request for a tenant purchase of a house owned by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15009/26]
Question· writtenPQ 275asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
275. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Defence the way her Department will put in place an accelerated programme of naval vessel replacement in 2028, as highlighted in the Updated Detailed Implementation Plan for the Commission of the Defence Forces given no capital funding has been allocated out to 2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14968/26]
Question· writtenPQ 274asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
274. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Defence if the NDP 2030 allocation for the armoured fleet replacement programme will be used to replace the Mowag Piranha; if it is envisioned that the Mowags will be replaced in the next NDP allocation; when she envisages the programme will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14966/26]
Question· writtenPQ 273asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
273. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Defence is she will publish the Capability Development Programme 2028 to 2032, and also the programme to 2040; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14944/26]
Question· writtenPQ 272asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
272. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Defence if she will publish the regeneration plans for the Naval Service and Air Corps that she has committed to progressing this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14943/26]
Question· writtenPQ 271asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
271. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 438 of 13 January 2026, when the information regarding the mean wait time for security clearance to be granted to reservists in the Defence Forces for each of the years 2021 to 2025, inclusive; and the number of applications for security clearances for reservists in each of those years will be available [14592/26]
Question· writtenPQ 270asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
270. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Defence the number of outsourced services in the Defence Forces and the plans to bring them back in-house; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14547/26]
Question· writtenPQ 269asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
269. Deputy Tony McCormack asked the Minister for Defence if she will ensure a local procurement requirement is implemented during the Government’s negotiations on Ireland’s military radar system with the French Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14529/26]
Question· writtenPQ 268asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
268. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Defence the State agencies within her Department that have made provision for the pension auto-enrolment payment as part of their allocation to funded organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14405/26]
Question· writtenPQ 267asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
267. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Defence to provide a list of all State agencies within her Department that allocate programme and project funding to section 39, section 56 and section 10 organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14387/26]
Question· writtenPQ 266asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 February 2026
266. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Defence the total number of medical assessments completed for the PDF and RDF, by year, and medical assessment location such as (St. Bricin’s, Cork, Athlone, or other relevant individual facility); the number of formal medical appeals submitted by applicants in each of those years, by the original medical assessment facilities; the outcomes of those medical appeals, specifying the number that were successful (upheld) and the number that were unsuccessful, categorised by medical assessment facility, in each of the years 2023 to 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14183/26]
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