Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Committee on Defence and National Security
Update on Issues in the Reserve Defence Force: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Neil Richardson:
Some international militaries do have specialist technical Reserve appointments where they will allow people to the age of 70 to apply. Obviously that is not currently the case here but it is internationally For very particular technical roles, be they medical specialists or whatever, they will have it up as high as the age of 70.