Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Engagement with Chair of Implementation Oversight Group

3:10 pm

Mr. Eamonn Murtagh:

Yes. On the issue of radar, under the detailed implementation plan, the plan is to get that delivered by 2028, with a decision at the end of this year on effectively how we are going to implement that military radar programme. We have established a joint civil and military team which has been operating in recent months to identify what our requirements are both from a long-range or recognised air picture, short-range radar as well as maritime. We have identified what our needs are. We are engaging and have engaged to determine the appropriate procurement strategy to try to get that completed within the 2028 timeline. Matters we are considering are the potential for government-to-government type arrangements in the sense of looking at other governments and their capabilities and seeing whether we can access those, as well as a joint procurement process or a national procurement competition. The decision there is expected by the end of this year and the hope and expectation is to meet the timelines we have currently outlined in the detailed implementation plan for that. That is the expectation with respect to military radar. It is broader than just the recognised air picture; there are other elements that have been included as part of that.

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