Tom Clonan (Independent)
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Understood. My final question is in relation to this issue of the 12. The Department of Defence confirmed to us a number of weeks ago that this upper limit of 12 does not apply to situations of force majeure where, for example, we have to evacuate Irish citizens from abroad, or if we were to provide aid to the civil authority of our neighbours in the UK or in Northern Ireland if it had major fires or humanitarian or man-made disasters. That upper limit of 12 does not apply in any of those scenarios. It only applies in the case of a mandated international mission. Would the witnesses agree with that?