Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is all part of our recruitment campaigns. Sometimes we can do that through direct entry. We may be able to fill some of those skills gaps through growing and expanding the Reserve. We may be able to do some of it through civilianisation. We need to be open to all of those things. Obviously, my preference is to get people into the Permanent Defence Force with the skills we need to grow and expand the Defence Forces in the way that we plan to do in order that we can spend all the extra money that will come into defence over the next four or five years.