Written answers
Wednesday, 7 December 2005
Department of Defence
Overseas Missions
9:00 pm
Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 112: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of officers currently serving in all overseas missions; the strength of Irish involvement in each overseas mission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38168/05]
Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Ireland is currently contributing 768 Defence Forces personnel to 19 different missions throughout the world. Of these personnel, 149 are officers. Full details of all personnel currently serving overseas are listed in the following statement. The main commitments are to the United Nations Mission in Liberia, with 425 personnel, to the NATO-led international security presence, or KFOR, in Kosovo, with 213 personnel and to EUFOR, the EU-led operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with 56 personnel. Other personnel are serving as monitors and observers with the United Nations, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the European Union. Staff are also deployed at the organisational headquarters of the OSCE, the UN, NATO and the EU.
| Members of the Permanent Defence Force serving overseas as of 1 December 2005. | |||
| No. Officers Serving | No. Other Ranks Serving | Total No. Serving | |
| 1. UN Missions | |||
| (i)UNIFIL (United Nations interim Force in Lebanon) | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| (ii)UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation) — Israel, Syria and Lebanon | 13 | — | 13 |
| (iii)MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) | 4 | — | 4 |
| (iv)UNMIK (United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo) | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| (v)MONUC (United Nations Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo) | 3 | — | 3 |
| (vi)UNOCI (United Nations Mission in Ivory Coast) | 2 | — | 2 |
| (vii)UNMIL (United Nations Mission in Liberia) FHQ | 6 | — | 6 |
| UNMIL 93rd Inf Bn | 36 | 383 | 419 |
| TOTAL | 69 | 388 | 457 |
| UN Mandated Missions | |||
| (viii)EUFOR (EU-led Operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina) | 15 | 41 | 56 |
| (ix)KFOR (International Security Presence in Kosovo) | 27 | 186 | 213 |
| (x)ISAF (International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan) | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Total | 46 | 230 | 276 |
| Total number of personnel serving with UN mission — 733 | |||
| 2. EU Missions | |||
| (i)European Union Monitor Mission (EUMM) to the former Yugoslavia | 6 | — | 6 |
| (ii)EU support to UN authorised African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| (iii)Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) | 3 | — | 3 |
| TOTAL | 11 | 1 | 12 |
| 3. Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). | |||
| (i)OSCE Mission to Bosnia & Herzegovina | 1 | — | 1 |
| (ii)OSCE Mission in Montenegro | 1 | — | 1 |
| (iii)OSCE Presence in Albania | 1 | — | 1 |
| (iv)OSCE Mission in FRY | 2 | — | 2 |
| (v)OSCE Mission in Georgia | 1 | — | 1 |
| (vi)Staff Officer, Higher Level Planning Group, Vienna | 1 | — | 1 |
| TOTAL | 7 | — | 7 |
| 4. Head of Military Staff (Brussels) | 1 | — | 1 |
| 5. EU Military Staff (Brussels) | 4 | — | 4 |
| 6. EU Military Staff (New York) | 1 | — | 1 |
| 7. Liaison Office of Ireland, PfP (Brussels) | 2 | — | 2 |
| 8. Permanent Representative to EU (Brussels) | 3 | — | 3 |
| 9. Military Representatives/ Advisers | |||
| (i)Military Adviser, Permanent Mission to UN, New York | 1 | — | 1 |
| (ii)Military Adviser, Irish Delegation to OSCE, Vienna | 1 | — | 1 |
| (iii)Military Representative to Partnership Co-ordination Cell/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Mons, Belgium | 1 | — | 1 |
| 10. Appointments — UN HQ (New York) | — | — | — |
| Officers seconded to DPKO (Department of Peace Keeping Operations) | 2 | — | 2 |
| TOTAL | 16 | — | 16 |
| Total number of officers serving overseas — 149. | |||
| Total number of Defence Forces personnel serving overseas 768. |
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