Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the request made by Deputy Timmins, with the consent of the Ceann Comhairle, we will be able to grant the ten minutes' speaking time the Deputy seeks.

I have assigned responsibility for the Department of Defence to my Department for the moment to show how seriously I take the issue. I will reassign responsibility in some little time and in the meantime, the Chief Whip and Minister of State at my Department, Deputy Paul Kehoe, will deal with matters of protocol. I intend to have a meeting with the Secretary General of the Department very shortly. I assure Deputy Ó Fearghaíl that the Department, all of those who work in it and the officers who serve in Óglaigh na hÉireann will be treated with the utmost seriousness.

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