Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My job is to ensure we reduce those risks by giving them the budgets and equipment to do the job properly. It is about ensuring there are enough personnel in the Defence Forces so they can be well equipped and trained. When we make a voluntary decision, confirmed by the triple-lock, to send troops to another part of the world, they should have trained and be interoperable in a professional sense with others with which they work.

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