Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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395. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the process and criteria for a non-commissioned officer to be retrospectively promoted; and the number of occasions that same has happened in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022. [16568/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Responsibility for managing the process of the promotion of non-commissioned officers of the Permanent Defence Force lies with the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces. In terms of the criteria for the promotion of this cohort, the process is reviewed by civil/military management and agreed in advance of each NCO promotion competition in consultation with the Representative Body, PDFORRA. The consultation process for the 2022 NCO promotion competition was completed earlier this month and the competition launched on Wednesday 23rd of March 2022.