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:

That still takes place. It is less common that it used to be. Unit camp is a recurrency event. Individuals engage in recurrency training whereas now, most seven and 14-day blocks are formalised courses where reservists are learning a new skill as opposed to engaging in recurrency for stuff they have already learned. As a notion, camp has drifted away in recent years and has been replaced with conducting courses over these seven or 14-day blocks. It is a very similar set-up and model.