Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is at variance with Deputy Wallace's submission. An opinion I hold strongly is that the Defence Forces need to be properly equipped with modern telecommunications, armouries and all aspects of the equipment used on a daily or monthly basis at home and abroad. Given that it is important to keep the Defence Forces up to date I ask the Minister of State the extent to which he proposes to so do.

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