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The Committee will also conduct a mid-year review of the 2015 Estimates for Public Services with the Minister for Defence
29th September 2015
The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality will meet tomorrow to discuss the ongoing refugee and migrant crisis.
In a separate session tomorrow, the Committee will also conduct a mid-year review of the 2015 Estimates for Public Services - Vote 35 (Army Pensions) and Vote 36 (Defence).
Vote 35 amounts to approximately €215,590,000, while Vote 36 amounts to approximately €639,404,000.
The schedule for tomorrow’s meeting will be as follows:
Session A: 10 a.m.
Migrant crisis.
• Representatives from the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service will be in attendance.
Session B: 2.00 p.m.
Mid-Year Review of the 2015 Estimates for Public Services - Vote 35 (Army Pensions); and Vote 36 (Defence).
• Minister for Defence, Simon Coveney TD, will be in attendance.
Committee Chair, David Stanton, TD, says: “Ireland has been to the fore in rescuing thousands of refugees and migrants from the Mediterranean as people flee conflict in the Middle East. In tomorrow’s session with the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, the Committee will seek to assess the Irish response and to address the many issues surrounding the human rights of those who make it to Europe, as well as nations’ obligations to those seeking asylum.”
“In the second session of our meeting, we will conduct a mid-year review of the 2015 Estimates for Public Services - Vote 35 (Army Pensions); and Vote 36 (Defence). Our engagement with Minister Coveney will allow us to discuss the allocation of public funds at the Department of Defence. Committee members will wish to examine how the department has performed so far this year, and to discuss its fiscal objectives for the rest of the year.”
The meeting will commence at 10am tomorrow, Wednesday, 30th September in Committee Room 2.
The meeting will be streamed live here.
From 10am – 12pm, the meeting will be broadcast live on Oireachtas TV on Sky Channel 574; UPC Channel 207 and eVision Channel 504.
Committee proceedings can also be viewed on the move, through the Houses of the Oireachtas Smartphone App, available for Apple and Android devices.
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Committee Membership
Chairman: David Standton, TD (FG)
Deputies:
Niall Collins (FF); Alan Farrell (FG); Anne Ferris (LAB) [Vice-Chairman]; Seán Kenny (LAB); Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (SF); Gabrielle McFadden (FG); Finian McGrath (IND); Fergus O’Dowd (FG)
Senators
Ivana Bacik (LAB); Martin Conway (FG); Tony Mulcahy (FG); Rónán Mullen (IND); Denis O’Donovan (FF); Katherine Zappone (IND)