Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of funding allocated to the Reserve Defence Forces during each of the past ten years. [58038/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Subhead A5, formerly Subhead D, of the Defence Vote is entirely devoted to the Reserve Defence Force (RDF). This subhead included the provision for RDF training, gratuities, allowances and grants paid into unit funds.

The annual provision and outturn for Subhead A5, as per the Revised Estimates, for the years 2002 to 2012 is set out in the tabular statement below:

As the RDF is a constituent part of the Defence Forces there are a range of other costs that are encompassed within other subheads of the Defence Vote. These include the cost of PDF staff assigned to work with the Reserve, property related costs and other costs. Details of these costs over the period 2006 - 2011 are available in the Value for Money Review of the Reserve Defence Force which was published in November 2012.