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

Resourcing is not the issue with the Defence Forces. Let us call a spade a spade. If the Deputy goes through that report, he will see that it is not an issue of resourcing. We need to be clear what we are dealing with here, as identified by the independent review group. I look back on the Dáil debate prior to the publication of the report. All the pressure on me was to make sure I implement the recommendations and I was asked whether I would implement them.

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