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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the Defence Forces, like every organisation, is engaging in some planning in the background. Many people take significant pride in the work done by the Defence Forces overseas, in particular with UNIFIL, Operation Pontus and Operation Sophia. Recently, when the LÉ James Joycereturned to Ireland, it was commented that it was not involved in as many rescues on this occasion. We did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

...community are colour blind, while only 1% of the female community are. That helps me in one area in bringing more men into the organisation, but it does not help me on the female side. Specifically on the operations side, the Naval Service has the highest churn or turnover of personnel of the three services. That is a concern. There has been an issue with a number of ships that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

...in the Naval Service in the context of the delivery of fisheries protection towards more risk-assessed boardings and inspections. This doctrine developed in my time in the service when a boarding operation took seven hours before the truth was established. At the end of the seven hours, we found one of the most sophisticated means of flouting the Common Fisheries Policy that we had come...