Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

National Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Discussion

3:00 pm

Mr. Brian Glynn:

Some of the indicators in the national action plan are for a number of Departments to implement. The one referred to by Deputy Crowe was a specific one relating to asking civilians in areas where we have peacekeepers abroad to participate in a survey on how they perceive the peacekeepers to be operating. During the 18 month period the Defence Forces were not deployed in sufficient numbers. They had just started in Lebanon at that stage and there simply was not time to do it. As part of our ongoing contact with the Defence Forces we hope to do it on the assumption they remain there for a period of time. They need to be there for sufficient period of time before a survey can be conducted.

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