Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Welfare of Ex-Service Personnel: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. William Gilbert:

We have talked about how we try to help those who are living with problems but one of our objectives is to remember our dead. As far as I know, before our organisation came along, there was nothing to commemorate the more than 90 people who have lost their lives overseas, most of them violently. We have erected monuments with those people's names on them. I cannot remember where they all are off the top of my head but there are at least a dozen centres around Ireland. It is very important to us that we remember those people, and it is one of our objectives that those people should never be forgotten.