Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2024

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised)

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

I can check for the Deputy, but apart from the large missions like UNIFIL and UNDOF, we have a range of smaller overseas deployments. Every now and then, two, three or four people return from those. I have the list with me. We have 329 with UNIFIL, 134 with UNDOF and 11 in UNTSO, which is another mission in the Middle East but is more based in the community. Four personnel are deployed with EUFOR, 13 with KFOR, four with EUNAVOR MED IRINI, one with UNMAS, four with EUMAM, one with the OSCE, eight with the EUMS in Brussels, nine with the EU battle group in Germany and 12 as military representatives at various overseas military locations. We also have the battle group that we will enter into in 2025. We have pulled back from Mali because of circumstances there in terms of its Government and-----

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