Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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141. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of competitions held to date in 2024 for Defence Forces personnel to apply to join the Defence Forces School of Music; and the number of Defence Forces personnel, by rank, that applied for each of the competitions that were held to date this year, in tabular form. [28656/24]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I have been advised by the military authorities that no competitions for the Defences Force School of Music have been held to date in 2024.

A recruitment campaign for instrumentalists resulted in 7 instrumentalists being inducted in September 2023. A Captain level (Conductor) appointment is anticipated from the Conductor campaign which closed in December 2023.