Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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115. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a new recruitment drive for aircraft maintenance technicians for the Air Corps will be launched in quarter 1 of 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2133/21]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the military authorities that the 2021 competition for Air Corps aircraft maintenance technicians will be held in the first quarter of the year.  

8 apprentice technicians were recruited in 2019, and 20 in 2020, while a total of 60 apprentices are in training with all due to complete by 2024.  Of those, 15 are scheduled to graduate in 2021.