Cathal Berry (Kildare South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for sharing that. I very much agree with it as well. I have worked in loads of different lines of work, no more than the witnesses. I started off in agriculture, and went on to retail, the military, medicine and now politics. My own genuine personal experience is that the place where I was treated the best and the place where I saw people being treated the best was unquestionably the Defence Forces.

I will pose a question to see what the witnesses' thoughts on it are. My theory and my proposition is that there is nothing really wrong with the defence culture. The defence culture is good. It is that there is a small number of people who are not aligned with the defence culture. I want to see what the witnesses' thoughts on that are. In every organisation, there are issues. I would say that the Defence Forces culture is improving. We need to further improve an already good culture but it is with the individuals who are not aligned with that culture of selflessness, courage and high ethical leadership that the problem lies. I would be grateful for the witnesses' thoughts on that.