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

The size of our contribution will be 182 participants. I can get the details for the Deputy, but it is in different phases. Its group headquarters consist of four personnel, a mechanised infantry company with a company HQ and two platoons, a weapons platoons consisting of 139 personnel together with a national support element consisting of 29 persons providing the necessary transport, medical, communications and information services, CIS, maintenance and ordinance support and staff posts of ten personnel to the force headquarters, FHQ. The operational headquarters is located in Ulm, Germany. The force headquarters is based in Strasbourg and Defence Forces personnel commenced their postings in January this year to FHQ. A lot of it will be here in Ireland first and in the second year there will be more of it in Germany.