Defence Forces
Dail Éireann — 2021-09-30
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

The first thing I want to do is to work with the women we have met, and who we will meet again, to try to finalise the terms of this review. I hope we will get the agreement and confidence of everybody that the people who are going to lead it are fit to do so. I would like to have international expertise as well as some very credible and strong Irish leadership. We have said that we are not going to rush this. It will take a few weeks to get it right and we must do that. Let us not forget that more than 20 years ago, Dr. Tom Clonan completed a doctoral thesis on this issue involving survey work across the Defence Forces. He made some very strong conclusions and after that, a whole series of things were done. We have had three different independent monitoring groups with recommendations-----

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Sitting date: 2021-09-30