Defence Forces Dail Éireann — 2023-03-23 ============================================================ Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central The point I am making is that we have to apply that to the Defence Forces. There are wider issues in respect of the fast accrual pension, which is at the core of it. I believe we can resolve those, and if a move is made, the Deputies opposite will be the very first to come back and ask what about another group that deserves similar treatment and so on. That is why the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform are dealing with that but, in the interim, we are trying work through and carry out some interim measures. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-03-23/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:43+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-03-23