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

I take that point. We are about to have a debate on everything from overall Defence Forces numbers, the numbers within the Army, the Air Corps, the Naval Service, resources for cybersecurity, military intelligence, capacity issues to structures within the Defence Forces and how they interact with each other and so on. It is my hope that this will allow us to have a broad, forward-looking debate on how we resource the Defence Forces appropriately into the future, as well as the capacity issues that need to be addressed, given what we ask of them. I assure the Deputy that will include a discussion on Custume Barracks, the infrastructure and numbers there and so on. In the context of the commission report, which we will see in the next few weeks, we will be able to pick up this conversation again. However, I assure the Deputy that if I can come back to him with actual numbers, I will do that. If I cannot, I will explain why.

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