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

The C295s and strategic airlift capacity, when it arrives, will be big changes to the Air Corps, compared to previous times. In fairness, I think Deputy Berry said this earlier. This is not to say that there are not still issues to be addressed. The biggest issue is recruitment and retention. We will bring in legislation to go up to the 35-year-old age group. Primary legislation is needed to do this, and I think someone referred to this point earlier, and we are going to do it. The retention aspect is extremely important as well. All I will say, though, is that somewhere along the line with all the negative comments we need some positive ones.

To be honest, within 15 hours of what was a successful intervention in respect of the drugs, there was a race to get this into a negative space.