Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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In his address to the RACO biennial delegate conference on 29 November last, the Minister did not specifically mention domestic commitments. What he did speak about was our peacekeeping commitments in the context of the number of officers serving overseas and the need to ensure that we balance our obligations to Ireland's foreign policy with our obligations to the other roles of a well managed Defence Forces.

The roles of the Defence Forces are set out in the White Paper on Defence. The roles in an on-island context are to defend the State against armed aggression, to aid the civil power, to provide a fishery protection service and to carry out such other duties as may be assigned to them from time to time.