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

We are investing in accommodation. In fact, we invested in accommodation in the Curragh Camp in recent years and I visited the upgraded accommodation in the past year or 18 months. We will continue to do that under the capital investment programme that is being rolled out.
I take the Deputy's point regarding the Border issues and ensuring there is knowledge of the challenges that come with the history of the Border in the context of the Defence Forces. We have a former Chief of Staff on the commission, and, of course, the chair of the commission was the Secretary General in the Department of Justice for a period when an awful lot of reform happened. There is, therefore, no shortage of experience on the commission, whether that is military, HR or broader management. It is large group of people - probably slightly larger than I would have liked - but we wanted to get all the skill sets on the commission. I am confident that they are more than qualified to make informed and ambitious recommendations, however.

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Sitting date: 2021-09-30