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

Mr. Derek Priestley:

Of course there should be. The latest Bill prescribed that any offences around sexual assault or rape will be investigated by An Garda Síochána, yet the military police may not be aware of that. Under this Bill we are going to ask the individual to tell his or her employer that he or she should be suspended on the back of this but the individual may not know. It is timing and the mechanism that are wrong.