Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Committee on Defence and National Security
General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Catherine Callaghan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
That would be a welcome thing. I have questions on the topic of retention and the service commitment scheme. I mentioned at the committee last night about the benefit of extending that to technical personnel. The Air Corps was mentioned at one of our previous committees and for some reason, 11 July sticks in mind. I do not know if the officers who are involved in it have until tomorrow if they decide to go for it. From the previous meeting, it was not a copy and paste of the pilots' one. Initially it might have been but work was being done on that. Would it be a good thing to expand the service commitment in respect of retention to other technically based officers?
No comments