Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage
Dail Éireann — 2020-09-08
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Brendan Howlin (LAB), Wexford

The definition of "operational control" is:
the authority delegated to a Force Commander in respect of a contingent assigned to him or her so that the Force Commander may—
(a) accomplish certain missions or tasks which are limited by function, time or location,
(b) deploy the contingent, and
(c) retain or assign tactical control of the contingent,
but does not include the authority to assign separate employment of any component of the contingent.
I read these particular lines of the Bill a couple of times to try to understand them. I do not know what "the authority to assign separate employment of any component of the contingent" means.

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