Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes. The other point is that there are figures for length of experience and previous tours and so on. Quite a number with experience of previous tours are on the current UNIFIL and UNDOF missions. I normally have those figures when I am seeing them off. I was with Senator Wilson recently. I hope he does not mind me saying that his son is serving. Ordinarily in the speech we outline the person who has the most missions overseas. There are one or two with ten or 11 missions. There is a lot of experience onboard. There will be people with first-time experience as well. That is fair.

We are nearly there with the IRG terms of reference. We have had a further round of meetings. I want to get the commission established. I think it is important that the terms of reference are reasonably tight enough that we get a timely tribunal of inquiry, but that we do not have one that goes on for a decade. That is always a casualty of terms of reference that are far too wide. We agreed with those representing survivors and victims that it would be a statutory public inquiry. That is where we are. I apologise. The Chair provoked me into a good exchange and I appreciate that.