Defence Forces
Dail Éireann — 2024-07-02
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Aindrias Moynihan (FF), Cork North-West

I thank the Minister. First, I condemn gender-based violence. There is no space anywhere for it to be tolerated. In the strongest possible way, I commend Natasha O'Brien on her approach and the way she has pressed things forward recently, and also on the way she handled herself when standing up for another victim on the night of her violent incident.
I want to ask about people who are convicted and the way the current system is operating. I understand that there are convicted people still within the military. Is there an indication of how many? Similarly, have there been other people discharged in recent years because of convictions?
What kind of threshold was required to bring about those discharges? Was it particular offences or sentences? What is the threshold expected to be with the revised approach?

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Sitting date: 2024-07-02