Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence

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

A public inquiry can contest things, as we saw with the Charleton tribunal, and so on. I am very worried about the strength of the Naval Service. I do not think the Air Corps is at failing point. We should be careful of the language we use. Once we say that morale is very low, if I am working in the Defence Forces and all I hear emanating every day from Dáil Éireann and everywhere else is that the worst place to work is in the Defence Forces, that the experience is terrible and that it is this and that, then that does not help my morale.

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