Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 May 2024

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage

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

Yes, the members. Every member of the Defence Forces is by definition more or less a member of PDFORRA and listed. My point is that the Bill is endeavouring to avoid a situation where a widespread campaign urged people to go and talk to every single TD in a constituency and so on. That is a new and dangerous line that we need to think through carefully before going down that road or we are representing the politicisation of the entirety of the Defence Forces.

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