Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed)

Professor Brian MacCraith:

No, not yet. As I mentioned in my opening statement, we have a commitment to ongoing engagement with stakeholders. I think there will be regular engagement, for example, with the representative bodies but wherever we can learn, we will listen. As I said, it took three days of activity but the two days of actual meetings in Cork were extremely valuable to us in terms of insights and context. The worst thing we could do is sit in meeting rooms in Dublin and talk about this. We need to go out on a regular basis. We will go out to different Army barracks, Air Corps locations, Naval Service bases, etc. As we move forward and listen on the ground, that really influences what we do and motivates us hugely.

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