Mr. Conor King:

The likes of a bounty, or whatever it is colloquially called in different armed forces, is something on which we have made a very detailed and costed submission. I do not have it to hand but I can send it to the Deputy afterwards.

As I said earlier, we were invited to make submissions on the various projects of the high-level implementation plan, one of which was termed incentivised long-service arrangements, which does exactly what it says on the tin. That submission, which was fully costed and took some months to put together, seems to have gone into a black hole. We got no feedback on it and we had no visibility on the final report, despite seeking it through a freedom of information request. We received a polite refusal. That is really frustrating when we are trying to help and come up with constructive solutions based on the subject matter experts within our membership who tell us what it takes to retain personnel.

Regarding other retention schemes, the Air Corps has a retention scheme that Captain Bray might speak about.