Cathal Berry (Kildare South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have three final questions. I thank Ms Sinnamon for her comments, which I agree with. We should not try to retrospectively blame anybody for what has happened over the past decade. I would be the opposite. The idea I am trying to get across is that it is not really retrospective rather than forward-looking. Some of the commentary I heard – not in this opening statement at all and certainly not from this delegation – could easily be interpreted as a bit of Army bashing and anti-military bias. I might mention to the Minister that I have never heard any Minister acknowledge their share of the responsibility rather than the blame in what happened to the Defence Forces over the past decade. I have never heard anyone from the civil side recognise it either. It might tone down some of the, “They are the Army. They caused this problem and we have to ride in on our white horse and solve it.” That is the point I wanted to make on that.

Second, I am not sure if it was Mr. Murtagh or Mr. Byrne who mentioned the two Air Corps helicopters that may appear in 2025. Do we know what variant that is? Is that a 139 or a 145?