Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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8. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if associations (details supplied) will be invited to make submissions on a veterans’ policy to the working groups set up by officials from his Department and from the Defence Forces to review progress in implementing the recommendations as published in the White Paper on Defence in August 2015. [35870/18]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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In accordance with the White Paper on Defence, the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces recently commenced work on the first of a three yearly cycle of defence reviews. The current review, which does not include an open consultation process, will consider developments since the publication of the White Paper in 2015 and will examine overall progress on its implementation, including veterans policy commitments.  In this regard, the existing structures whereby regular meetings take place between representatives of the veterans' organisations and officials from my Department and the Defence Forces, will continue to be utilised to discuss matters of mutual interest and for raising any issues of concern.