Written answers
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Department of Defence
Defence Forces Reserve Training
Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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596. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the numbers of Reserve Defence Forces, recorded attending more than ten hours of training in 2013, in each Permanent Defence Force unit to which they are attached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7966/14]
Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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It was not possible to provide the exact information sought by the Deputy in the time available. However, the following table details the number of Reserve personnel who have undertaken training in 2013 and the number of hours training these personnel completed broken into bands of less than or equal to 20 hours, 21 to 30 hours and greater than 30 hours.
Brigade/Formation | <=20 HOURS | 21 – 30 HOURS | >30 HOURS |
---|---|---|---|
1 Brigade | 304 | 87 | 482 |
2 Brigade | 450 | 91 | 420 |
4 Brigade | 154 | 0 | 0 |
Defence Forces Training College | 19 | 2 | 53 |
Defence Forces Headquarters | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Naval Service | 33 | 3 | 61 |
TOTAL | 964 | 183 | 1016 |
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