Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Talking about repetition, what I do not want is to have a leadership institute that will collapse in two, three, four or five years' time. I want something that is attractive and will be there for years to come. We have to get the expertise of partners involved. When we let this go out to a feasibility study in January 2018 we asked the company to interact with the Department, the Defence Forces and education organisations, including universities, institutes of technologies and other peace and leadership institutes. We asked for an examination of what they were offering and what could make us different from and more attractive than them. The people I spoke to said there is a huge amount of work involved in this. It is not just about building the building, bringing people in from overseas and talking about Ireland's neutrality or how great we are at peacekeeping overseas. We are outstanding but we have to look beyond that. We have to look at ten or 15 years down the road instead of three or five years down the road.

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