Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group

3:10 pm

Ms Julie Sinnamon:

I will feed the Senator's comments back to Declan Carville, head of strategic HR. I will talk to him about it. To go back to retention, it is obviously great to see the stabilisation. Maybe with a bit of luck we will get to a small increase this year, but at the end of the day it is not in line with the level of recruitment we need to achieve that target within the timeframe set out in the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. It is a very challenging figure at this stage. We can push other things, but that is a short-term goal. It is something we will keep under review, but we are certainly not on target at this stage - far from it.

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