Results 1-20 of 1,948 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I spoke to the Tánaiste about this in the Dáil previously. Members of the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána are aware that the Government is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut here. I am also not happy about the opening statement being taken as read when it has not even been circulated. I checked if it was up on the system two minutes before I came down here-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: It is not up on MS Teams so I have not read it. Could it at least be circulated if we are to take it as read?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: Yes, it is customary for opening statements to be put up on the system-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: Yes, that is what I asked.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: We are taking the opening statement as read but it was not up on MS Teams before we came down. Maybe there is a problem with-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: No.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I have also spoken to the Tánaiste about the Secretary General being an ex officio member. We had great engagement with the external oversight group when it was before the committee, as we did with the other stakeholders. The Tánaiste says he wants the Secretary General to be there as some kind of conduit between the Minister for Defence and the external oversight group. That is...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: The Tánaiste did not accept all the recommendations.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: You did not accept the ones relating to the Air Corps or the hazardous chemicals.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I am sure you did not.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I move amendment No 11: In page 14, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(c) the Secretaries General of those military representative associations authorised by the Minister as per subsection (3A) of the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990 (inserted by section 23(a)(iii) of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2024) who shall be ex officio members, and”.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I spoke to the Tánaiste on Second Stage about my next point. I am referring to the scrapping of the plan to place an unprecedented bar on the director of military prosecutions and military judges from being members of a representative association. It is unprecedented anywhere in the Civil Service or the public service. The independent arbitrator has already adjudicated against this...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: Okay. That is withdrawn. I thank the Tánaiste.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 27, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(iii) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (7): “(8) The Minister shall not seek to prohibit any person from being a member of a representative association on the basis of the post they hold.”,”. I withdraw the amendment and reserve the right...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 17: In page 27, to delete lines 15 to 36, and in page 28, to delete lines 1 to 5. I also withdraw this amendment but retain the right to resubmit it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 20: In page 28, line 27, to delete “or matter of Government policy”.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 22: In page 28, lines 30 and 31, to delete “or matter of Government policy”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Africa Day: Discussion with African Ambassadors to Ireland (21 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. We certainly have a critical history in common insofar as Ireland was also a colonised country. I thank the witnesses for the kind words about Ireland and whatever help we have been on the international stage. Palestine is a defining political issue for us in the EU. Palestine is very close to our hearts and I am wearing my Palestinian Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 30. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in the interest of transparency, he will refer any desired or proposed changes to the triple lock to the people in a referendum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22149/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department will increase financial support to the charities supporting veterans and former members of the Defence Forces; if the State, through the forces themselves, will develop its own outreach, care and liaison services for former members who have served the State proudly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22150/24]