Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am concerned that we are going to run out of time to have any meaningful discussion in this House on a matter of real concern, namely, the demoralisation in our Defence Forces. Members of the Defence Forces are totally demoralised by the lack of respect they have been shown by the Government. This peer review, which has been promised for six or eight months now and is to be published in the dying days of this Dáil term, if at all, is adding to that sense of alienation. Why did the terms of the review focus only on allowances and not on core pay when core pay is the kernel of the grievances of our serving men and women?

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