Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail)
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Like my colleagues, I welcome the four witnesses. I thank them for their insightful contributions. As Deputy Callaghan has pointed out, we have 150 years of military experience in this room. I thank the witnesses most sincerely.

I hope I can be forgiven for welcoming especially former Deputy, Dr. Cathal Berry. He was an excellent Member of the Dáil and I had the honour of serving with him for five years on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. I do not know if a better representative of the armed forces exists and it is good to see him. We are not going to keep him much longer from opening the patio doors and jumping into the sea I can see behind him.