Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Professor MacCraith and his colleagues to the meeting, thank him for appearing before us and wish him well in his work. At our meeting last week, ICTU strongly recommended that the representative bodies have membership of the oversight body and the vast majority of members of this committee would have been in agreement with it on that. In his contribution, Professor MacCraith said he believed the representative bodies have a critical role to play in the transformation of the Defence Forces. I think we all agree with that.

However, he went on to say that membership of the oversight body is a matter for the Minister and the Government. That is a fact. If the Minister agreed that PDFORRA and RACO should have a voice on the oversight body, would Professor MacCraith or any other member of the oversight body have any difficulty with that?