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

Yes. As I said, this is something we are looking at. It will certainly be part of what the new head of transformation in the Defence Forces will look at as well. We are bringing about some pretty fundamental change over the next six months or so in terms of how people are managed in the Defence Forces. We will be bring in a lot of outside expertise as part of those efforts. However, we also have to be clear that the Department of Defence cannot just decide these things on its own because they have knock-on consequences across the public sector in terms of pensions, costs and so on. We need to work it through with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which takes time.