Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have noted the number of young people who have entered the Visitors Gallery to listen to the debate. Listening to the Minister of State, I wonder how many of them will be future members of the Air Corps, the Naval Service or the Army. If they knew what were the conditions and pay of soldiers and members of the Naval Service and the Air Corps, work they would think twice or three times about it? We have asked this question already. Will the Minister of State, please, outline the measures he intends to take to address the recruitment crisis in the Defence Forces because its root is the pay and conditions of and low morale among their members?

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