Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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134. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of the 14 separate commitments assigned to his Department in the Programme for Partnership Government that have been commenced, completed, abandoned and are ongoing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15954/18]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The Programme for a Partnership Government contains an ambitious range of commitments that my Department continues to prioritise. Separately, the White Paper on Defence has set the defence policy agenda over a ten year planning horizon. Several of the commitments assigned to my Department arising from the Programme for a Partnership Government overlap with existing White Paper commitments that are being implemented.

To date, work on all 14 of the commitments assigned to my Department is well underway, with two having reached completion, namely the introduction of a pilot employment support scheme and the award of a 1916 Centenary Commemorative medal to all members of the Defence Forces who were in service during 2016. The remaining 12 commitments are continuing to be progressed.