Cathal Berry (Kildare South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would definitely back up Deputy Clarke on that issue. The biggest issue in the Defence Forces is pay. The second biggest, as Deputy Clarke pointed out, is contracts that are not fit for purpose. We go to such great efforts to recruit people but then effectively sack them at the age of 50 if they are privates or corporals. There are seven of these people on "death row", as they describe it.