Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Ó Snodaigh has asked a wide range of questions. He has been at Representative Association for Commissioned Officers, RACO, and Permanent Defence Forces Other Ranks Representative Association, PDFORRA, conferences over the last number of years, and members of the Defence Forces have raised this issue with me, both at the conferences and outside. I have often been accused of not listening to members of those organisations by the Members of these Houses. When I do act I am asked what I am doing. I believe our Defence Forces should be protected in the very same manner as all other military personnel with whom they operate on missions and exercises when deployed outside of the State. I genuinely believe that. Perhaps Deputy Ó Snodaigh does not believe that, but I do.