Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge that the members of the Reserve Defence Force welcome the introduction by the Minister of the single force structure. An interesting presentation was made by the said group to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality during the past fortnight and at that meeting its representatives made it very clear to us that it was their opinion that the value for money review on which the Minister had based his amendments to the system was flawed on a number levels. They said it had failed to make any qualitative evaluation of the input of the Permanent Defence Force into the RDF. They also claimed it had made biased comparisons in its case studies, that it misinterpretd evidence and included no substantial analysis to support many of its claims. In addition, they said it completely ignored the operational capability, experience and output of the Naval Service Reserve.

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