Donna McGettigan (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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281. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the advertisement budget allocated to the permanent Defence Forces in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30289/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Defence Forces advertising budget is provided for within Subhead A.22.2 (Miscellaneous: Advertising) of the Defence Vote and provides for advertising costs which support various Defence Forces recruitment initiatives. The table below outlines the Subhead A.22.2 allocation over the period specified.

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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282. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent by the Defence Forces on purchasing specialist military equipment from German based companies in 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [30393/25]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Investment in new equipment for the Defence Forces is provided for under various Subheads of the Defence Vote relating to defensive equipment, mechanical transport, aircraft, ships and naval stores, engineering, communications and information technology equipment etc.

I am informed by the Defence Forces that their records indicate the amount spent on purchasing military equipment from companies based in the Germany in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 was as follows:

The Department has published details of Purchase Orders including those placed for weapons and equipment by the Defence Organisation for the years 2023 to the first quarter of 2025. I am advised that a small number of Purchase Orders for that timeframe were excluded from the published list for security and operational reasons.