Mr. Rossa Mulcahy:

We need to add as much resilience as we can into all our streams, not just air traffic services. The direct-entry stream is something we will look at across a myriad of our specialist areas. We are going out to the technological universities and advertising a life in the Defence Forces for engineers. We are saying we can upskill them to become engine room artificers on a ship or military engineers in an Army engineering company. We absolutely will look at direct entry in the future. As the GOC rightly said, if we can take in five direct-entry personnel every year in line with our air traffic control cadetship and other retention initiatives, we will build up the service much more quickly. We will look at every avenue possible along with our colleagues in the Department.