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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (2 Jul 2024)
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (2 Jul 2024)
General Practitioner Services
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (2 Jul 2024)
Thomas Gould: In the first five months of this year, there was an 87% drop in the number of patients seen in SouthDoc in Blackpool compared with 2019, representing almost 9,000 fewer patients seen in the first six of months of the year. My constituents who use the SouthDoc out-of-hours facility have told me that people are being sent to the Kinsale Road, Youghal or Midleton, but SouthDoc in Blackpool is...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (2 Jul 2024)
Mary Butler: Before I start, I have to call out what the Deputy said. It is unfair to call any Minister a liar or say that he or she is telling lies. I want that on the record of the Dáil. Any Minister who comes in here in good faith to answer Topical Issue Matters is given a response which is local to the area. We have to work with the information that is given to us. I am now giving the Deputy...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (2 Jul 2024)
Thomas Gould: I said the Minister got the information from the HSE and SouthDoc. What the Minister said was a lie. The Minister might have believed it to be true, but the information he had was incorrect. I want the Dáil record corrected because I am right and the Minister is wrong. He got information from SouthDoc in Blackpool that is a lie. May I say-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (2 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome that extra information. It is very reassuring. We should also be aware that while our defences are improving, and rightly so, the threat is also increasing as time goes by. The Tánaiste said so himself and identified what had to be done, even though there are some discordant voices whenever that issue is raised. The Tánaiste is to be congratulated on taking the stand...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: If I can return to the Deputy's earlier question on Europe, we had the Committee Stage debate today and some Members were in attendance. There has been a nervousness in this House about participating in PESCO, for example. Historically, Ireland's level of participation has been low. For the life of me I cannot understand this. Tomorrow in the Dáil we will have the debate on this. We...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (2 Jul 2024)
Question No. 71 taken with Question No. 64.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (2 Jul 2024)
Questions Nos. 72 and 73 taken with Written Answers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Defence Forces
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Pauline Tully: 74. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the progress made to date in ensuring the provisions of the working time directive are applied, where appropriate, to members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28235/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: 97. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action he is taking in relation to the removal of the blanket exemption in the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 for the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28150/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Pauline Tully: I ask the Tánaiste for an update on the progress made to date in ensuring the provisions of the working time directive are applied, where appropriate, to members of the Defence Forces
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 74 and 97 together. I wish to reassure the Deputy of my ongoing commitment, as Minister for Defence, to the removal of the blanket exemption which currently applies to the Defence Forces in the Organisation of Working Time Act. Significant progress has been made recently on this body of work. Earlier this year, I approved the final management position,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Pauline Tully: The Commission on the Defence Forces published its report in February 2022. One of the recommendations of the report was the expeditious removal of the blanket exclusion of the Defence Forces from the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997, subject to the application of the derogations permitted by the working time directive. This is key and probably the single most important thing that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy may have missed an earlier answer to this. I have progressed this. I have got agreement with the defence representative organisations on an agreed military management position following discussions. It has been sent to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The legislative process has commenced. I made it a priority when I became Minister for Defence to introduce...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Pauline Tully: The commission believes that the implementation of the directive will improve retention, well-being and productivity in the Defence Forces. The Tánaiste is saying it has progressed in the seven weeks. Is September still the date we will see the legislation progressing?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: We are progressing the legislation now. We agreed a position more than seven weeks ago; I would say perhaps two months ago.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Pauline Tully: The last parliamentary reply to me stated that you were still in negotiation and at that stage working out the details of the final management position was still under way.