Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)

The stadium could only accommodate 14,000 people, yet 500,000 attended the game in 1978.

Deputy Collins asked if someone who was re-deployed from a barracks in Monaghan to Dundalk, or someone re-deployed from Lifford to Finner Camp could apply to move to a different location. The answer is "Yes"; it is possible to apply to a different location. I have instructed the military authorities to do everything possible to accommodate those people if they wish to go to a different location.

A security assessment has been done and the result is that there are no down-side security implications. I wish to make it clear that all civilian staff will continue to be employed. At the moment I am negotiating with the Department of Finance for a voluntary redundancy scheme — I emphasise the word "voluntary" — for the civilian staff, of which they will be entitled to avail if they wish. We do not have all the details yet and the Department of Finance has not finally agreed to the scheme but I am hoping to come to an agreement shortly. If civilian staff wish to be redeployed to any place other than the place to which they are being deployed, they can ask for that as well and I will do my best to accommodate them.

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