Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This question is to adjudicate the performance of the Government in respect of the Defence Forces. Sometimes the Tánaiste says there is unfair criticism. It would be important to set out for the Dáil, in each year of this Government from 2020, the target recruitment for the Defence Forces and, in each year, how many were actually inducted and how many left, in other words, the net recruitment figure for each of those years.

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