If this amendment were accepted, the Chief of Staff would become the Accounting Officer for the Defence Forces Vote and Defence Forces Headquarters would no longer be part of the Department of Defence but positioned within the Defence Forces proper. I fully accept the amendment I have proposed is far from the finished article in the context of the reforms that are necessary, but the notion that the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces - the chief of the Defence Forces - is an adviser to the Minister and that a senior civil servant in the Department actually can direct him in the administration of the Defence Forces, there needs to be----- That is not quite how it works.
So too do members of the Defence Forces. In communities where members of the Defence Forces live, everybody knows they are members of the Defence Forces.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 7,383 words from 10 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Brendan Howlin and Duncan Smith; Níl, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: | Carried | 71–55 |
| Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." | Carried | 88–36 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 51–69 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 51–71 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 51–71 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 49–70 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 43–72 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 48–73 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 50–74 |
| Amendment to amendment put: | Lost | 49–73 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 72–48 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 48–70 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 52–70 |
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