Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)

Will the Minister agree that this group could have a vital role to play in attracting more people back to the RDF? Some of the reasons for the fall-off in numbers include organisational difficulties and the question of the presence of professionals at all times at training camps and other exercises. The importance of attracting this reservoir of talent, as we have both described it, back into the Defence Forces is all the more important in that sense.

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