Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have listened to the representative organisations, both PDFORRA and the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers, RACO. The working group that has been set up will include a member of the Department of Defence. The Department will get feedback from the working group as to how I can proceed and review the current structures. I have seen the conciliation and arbitration process working on a daily basis. I am satisfied that it is working in the way that was originally intended. While there are similar policies in place in the Department of Justice and Equality and Department of Defence in respect of An Garda Síochána and members of the Defence Forces, that does not indicate that one case follows the other. When the working group starts its deliberations, I will await the outcome of the working group's deliberations and decide where to go from there.

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