Defence Forces
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-02
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John Brady (SF), Wicklow

The Minister has come in here and said he is only a month in the job. I hate to remind him that he has been Taoiseach over the past two years. That speaks to the lack of urgency and seriousness the Government has given the major crisis within the Defence Forces. The Minister's comments hit the nail on the head. He said that of the 38 early actions, two thirds have been implemented, as if that is some sort of major achievement. The reality is that one third have not been implemented within the Government's own timeframe. These were supposed to be implemented within the first six months of the Government giving its response, which it did in July. It has missed its own targets. We do not need an implementation body. The implementation of these early actions that the Government identified is in its hands, not those of an implementation body. When are the remaining one third of the early actions the Government identified going to be fully implemented?

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Sitting date: 2023-02-02