Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2024-06-12
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

If he wants to explain to me now, he can.
To me, that is just an instance of how there is a problem because, surely, an external oversight body should be precisely something that does not have that sort of cosy relationship or potential conflict of interest where it might not really be in its interest to admit there is a problem or something being done wrong and, therefore, it just takes the word of military management on an issue or grievance that has been raised by a member of the Defence Forces.

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Sitting date: 2024-06-12