Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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295. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the programme for Government commitment to ensure all enlisted members of the Defence Forces have the same access to healthcare as officers currently do; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6432/23]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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A Working Group on Medical Care was established in 2021 to bring forward proposals and identify an approach to implementing the Programme for Government commitment to ensure all enlisted members of the Defence Forces have the same access to healthcare as officers currently do. Its work included analysing the range and cost of treatments currently provided to Officers and how best to provide this access to enlisted personnel. The Working Group reported during 2022. This matter is currently being progressed as one of the early actions in the High Level Action Plan of the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces.