Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)

-----on this or any other issue relating to the Defence Forces. It is great that members of senior management have visited Columb Barracks in Mullingar. It is their job to do so. I do not doubt that senior personnel within the Defence Forces visit the barracks on a regular basis because they have a responsibility to do so in other to observe what is happening there. They do not inform those at the barracks on a regular basis that it is going to be closed. Those responsible for making decisions in respect of matters such as this are the Minister for Defence and the Government. The Deputy's efforts to pre-empt a decision which has been neither discussed nor made by the Cabinet amount to scaremongering.

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