Mr. Kieran Brennan:

I will add to that. I will share my experience of Kosovo. I was a company commander in a battle group commanded by a Finnish colonel. We were professional soldiers and the Finnish and Swedish contingent were reservists.

I found the workload for my troops increased steadily month by month because the battlegroup commander was more confident in the ability of the Irish troops, who were professional soldiers, to deliver the objectives he required, while the Finnish troops, although good people, did not have the professional training our people had. Our workload increased accordingly.