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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Discharged.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: -----discharged at this point.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The ones on sexual assault are on leave locally so they are not in service.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: They are not all in service. Is there an indication of how many people have been completely discharged and removed from the military as a result of different convictions, and what kinds of convictions they were removed for? Was it gender based? What kinds of thresholds were there? Were they discharged for particular offences or is there any information on the types of sentences? The...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Thomas Gould: I have listened to the Tánaiste's comments about questions and I understand the point he is making that he is limited in what he can say because some of these cases are in front of the courts and others are probably being looked at by senior people in the Defence Forces. I understand he is in a particular situation in that regard. I also listened to his comments about trying to change...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I again clarify for Deputy Moynihan that enlisted personnel can be discharged for any one of 26 reasons outlined and identified in Defence Forces regulations. Of the 68, somewhere in the mid-40s are still before the courts. We have to allow due process to take its course. I take a view, which I have made clear to the Chief of Staff, that where someone is guilty, particularly of a section 3...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Defence Forces
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of his engagement with senior management in the Defence Forces with regard to the number of serving members who have convictions for gender-based violence; his plans to publish the recent audit by the Defence Forces carried out in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28181/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: 75. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the convictions under the civilian criminal justice system that are deemed serious enough to warrant dismissal of serving Defence Forces members under the court martial system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28186/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: 91. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has had any engagement with the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces following a recent court case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28149/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I stay with the same issue. I am asking for details of the Tánaiste's engagement with senior management in the Defence Forces with regard to the number of serving members who have convictions for gender-based violence, and his plans to publish the recent audit carried out by the Defence Forces in this regard. I am asking this question in the context of the Women of Honour documentary...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 67, 75 and 91 together. I thank the Deputies for their questions. I can confirm there has been engagement with the Chief of Staff and we yesterday to discuss these very serious issues. Following a recent case, I was informed on Friday, 21 June of another case involving a member who is still serving after being convicted of assault causing harm. In light...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that the Tánaiste is taking a hands-on approach, but can he imagine? We have had a commission on the future of the Defence Forces. We have the documentary on the Women of Honour. We have a tribunal set up. However, he, as Tánaiste of this country, the second most important role, has to repeatedly ask the what the situation is. He gets a report, and he is not happy...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Bernard Durkan: As the previous speaker stated, this is about the fear generated by some of the activities that have gone on unknown to the public. It is the fear of women who are obviously in constant fear of being attacked, and unfortunately these attacks have happened horrendously. Some of the cases are so bad that to allow anything even remotely associated to continue indefinitely is wrong. I know the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I said earlier that I think the level of violence in our society, against women in particular, is at an alarming level. People will say we had it in the past and so on. We have discussed this among other issues. I find it unconscionable, and I cannot understand how people can engage in such violence against fellow human beings on the streets or in any location. However, we have to do a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes, members of Defence Forces have been discharged as result of criminal convictions in the courts. Apart from the discharge process, there is an existing local leave mechanism that can be used. On 27 June, lest there be any doubt, I instructed that anyone who had been convicted and is awaiting an appeal or is before the courts on the charge of rape or sexual assault be immediately placed...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Aindrias Moynihan: I want to shift the focus to the victims where there is a conviction in the courts or via courts martial and the review that is proposed. Will the military authorities engage with victims? Will they be bringing them forward to provide evidence? Will they engage with victims after they make a decision? Do they currently engage with victims and let them know of the outcome of courts martial...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: When the report of independent review group of 12 months ago was published, I immediately took the decision and gave an instruction to the military that all sexual assault allegations were no longer to be dealt with by the military courts or under military law and that all sexual assault and rape cases were to be referred to the civil courts. That has been the position for over 12 months. I...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Defence Forces
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)
Robert Troy: 64. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the disciplinary procedures that are in place for serving members of the Defence Forces who are charged with and convicted of criminal offences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28124/24]