David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. I have only two more questions. The witnesses also gave us a paper - we have it here - about their survey of voluntary retired officers from 2020 to 2022. In the paper there is quite a lot with respect to people returning to the Defence Forces and the first-line Reserve and so forth. According to this paper, 14% of those surveyed had applied for the first-line Reserve and 80% had not. When asked whether they would apply for it now, 53% said "No" and 47% said "Yes". Quite a high percentage would like to go back in and contribute to the Reserve but obviously it is not being used at all from what I can see. Would the witnesses like to comment on that?