Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

VFM Review of Reserve Defence Force: Discussion with Minister for Defence and RDFRA

11:15 am

Mr. Patrick Mulley:

I welcome it and view it as a great move forward. That is assuming we get the culture shift we require, in that Mr. Martin Cooney outlined that we are being parachuted in on top of regular units who never had anything to do with us, and as I said earlier, we embrace the difference and view it as a positive whereas those units do not embrace the difference and view it as a deficit. That is one of the huge things we have to overcome, and maybe in time it will work out because it certainly worked out in the 1970s and we had no problem with it.

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