266. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Defence following the publication of the National Maritime Security Strategy, if she can outline when we can expect to see publication of the first National Aviation Security Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22224/26]
Parliamentary questions
Questions
TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work
Browse the questions
2,499 questions match, newest first.
267. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Defence if and when she intends to advance plans to join the European Air Transport Command; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22225/26]
268. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Defence if she could provide details of the last five class intakes detailing the number of Air Corps pilot cadetships offered and commenced and the number of Air Corps apprentice places offered and commenced, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22226/26]
269. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Defence the number of Air Corps pilot retirements in the past five years; the number of young officer pilot graduations in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22227/26]
270. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Defence the number of Air Corps aircraft technician retirements over the past five years; the number of apprentice aircraft technician graduations in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22228/26]
271. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Defence the list of specialist military courses that Irish naval personnel travelled to the US to take part in; the location of these courses in the United States in the years 2025 and to date in 2026; the duration of each of these courses, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22260/26]
272. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Defence the number and percentage of applications from females to join the Permanent Defence Forces at the most recent army cadetship recruitment campaign. [22285/26]
273. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Defence for an update on the work of the Energy Sector Group; to provide details on the priority areas they have identified for resilience in the energy sector; to detail the measures that have been examined to address the challenges identified in recent stress tests of the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22405/26]
274. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Defence if any sector groups have been established as part of the operationalisation of the EU CER regulations since the establishment of the Energy Sector Group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22406/26]
275. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Defence for an update on the development of the National Critical Entities Resilience Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22407/26]
173. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if the State Claims Agency Risk Management section on behalf of the Management Liaison Group carried out annual audits of the Air Corps Health and Safety procedures and so on during the period 2006-2016; if it still carries out such audits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21292/26]
174. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence if the State Claims Agency Risk Management Liaison group discussed the annual audits of the Air Corps Health and Safety procedures when they were produced; the outcomes of each audit; and the make up of the SCA/Defence Forces Liaison Group in the years since 2006. [21293/26]
175. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel by rank and by vessel that would be needed to ensure that all eight navy ships have the required crew to be able to operate at any one time. [21290/26]
176. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 26 February 2026, whether she was including the former members of the Air Corps when she indicated in her reply that there would be “additional stakeholder engagement, in relation to the report she is expecting this month into mortality rates of serving or former members of the Air Corps, including those members …
177. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Defence whether her Department has been misled for at least 22 years in relation to the health and safety regime in the Air Corps' Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnell, County Dublin (details supplied);; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21302/26]
178. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Defence in view of the publication of the National Maritime Security Strategy, if provision is being made for substantial investment in subsea infrastructure; if such investment will comprise both public and private financial contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21327/26]
152. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Defence the number of workers who retired from the public service in each of the last three years who have a fast accrual element to their public service pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18967/26]
153. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Defence the proposals she is implementing in relation to recruitment in the Defence Forces; the number which have been recruited for each of the years 2021 to 2025; the number that have retired in the same period, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18421/26]
154. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Defence to outline Ireland’s Naval Defence capabilities and assets; to compare it with five years ago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18446/26]
155. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Defence to outline Ireland’s Defence Forces (army) capabilities and assets; to compare it with five years ago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18447/26]
156. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Defence to outline Ireland’s Air Corps defence capabilities and assets; to compare it with five years ago; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18448/26]
157. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Defence the number of staff from her Department seconded to other Departments or agencies in the Civil Service, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the Department or agency, in tabular form. [18589/26]
158. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Defence the number of staff from her Department seconded to a firm in the private sector, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the company, in tabular form. [18607/26]
159. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Defence the number of staff from her Department seconded from a firm in the private sector, per annum from 2022 to date in 2026; and the details of the company, in tabular form. [18625/26]
160. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Defence the position regarding the implementation of the Regeneration and Development Plan of the Reserve Defence Forces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18641/26]