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

There has been mandatory deployment in the past. My understanding is that it primarily occurred in specialist areas. Overwhelmingly, though, deployment is voluntary. We believe that the recall of UNDOF and the consolidation give us a much stronger capacity in terms of the voluntary dimension. In other words, deployments to missions, in particular UNIFIL, will all be voluntary.