Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 134: To ask the Minister for Defence when he last met with PDFORRA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1402/05]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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My first public engagement after being appointed Minister for Defence was to attend PDFORRA's annual delegate conference in Letterkenny last October. I had the privilege of addressing the delegates and meeting briefly with officials of the association.

PDFORRA is the voice of enlisted personnel of the Permanent Defence Force and it plays an integral and valuable part within the representative process. I look forward to developing a positive and productive working relationship with the association.

PDFORRA has recently been in contact with my office requesting a formal meeting and it is hoped that a mutually agreeable date will be arrived at in the near future.