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

Photo of Donnchadh Ó LaoghaireDonnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein)
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Okay. I have one final question. The witnesses talked a bit about the kinds of duties that are there with regard to working with the Defence Forces such as patient transit and all that kind of stuff. On the trajectory, there is an ambitious enough target. I think it is 3,800 in 2028. In order to achieve that, is there enough in expanding the incidence of the types of duties that are currently undertaken or will additional duties have to be identified for personnel?