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. Dan Garland:
To follow what Mr. Gilbert said about remembering the dead, I served in the Congo in 1960. When I joined this organisation almost 20 years ago and attended one or two funerals I thought of the people who had died from the 32nd, 33rd and 34th battalions. There was no briefing before we left Ireland and no debriefing when we got home. We were handed £25 and told we had 30 days holidays and then to return for duty. We went to the Congo dressed and equipped to travel to the Arctic.