Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Supplementary)

2:30 pm

Photo of Pádraig Mac LochlainnPádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chairman for his patience. We have a list here of the number of personnel that retired and the number recruited from 2008 to present. The discrepancy between the two peaked in 2009 and 2010. For example, in 2009, 499 retired and 47 were recruited; in 2010, 522 retired and 145 were recruited. The peak of retirements was in 2012, when 793 retired, which was a very large number, and 632 were recruited. From glancing at those figures, I estimate that there is a gap of approximately 1,000. What are the Minister's plans to address the shortfall in the Defence Forces caused by that period?

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