Dr. Mark Mellett:

The medical officers within the Defence Forces make the decision. We have several medical officers. Someone mentioned the issue of medical services earlier. We are recruiting four additional medical officers this week. We have primary care with medical officers. Then, in the context of the services specifically required, regardless of whether a person is an officer or from an enlisted rank, if it in the area of psychiatry, private resources will be made available for the person they are deemed necessary.

On the number of jobs I have applied for, I was privileged to be nominated by Government to compete for the appointment of chairman of the European Union Military Committee. That was a decision of Government. It was not my decision. I accepted the nomination and competed for the position, but I was not successful. That is the only opportunity outside the Defence Forces that I have looked at in decades. There is a good deal of commentary on social medial suggesting that I am going here, there and everywhere, when I am not.