Kevin Byrne
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213 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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So we're taking help from wherever wherever we can get it.
But I'd like if we could sometime in the future say we have enough people, enough capacity to do what we have to do and protect ourselves in all eventuality.
Not just at the moment, unfortunately, because the Department of Defence Forces are about two thousand members below the current establishment of nine thousand seven hundred and thirty nine like that.
And we're trying to get to eleven and a half thousand by twenty twenty eight, so it's not going to be easy, even if we train seven hundred a year up in a place called Gormelstone, you like that.
We need people to be attracted to the defence forces.
We need to pay them more and treat them a little bit different than the civil servants.
And I I say this because I think the people and who do the you know the fire
Firefighters, the Gardashikona prisons, and particularly the the defence forces, are not the same as civil servants because they should be paid in a different way.
You need to attract them in, they have a different lifestyle, and it's not unusual in other countries to pay a bonus and that kind of thing to get the people in.
Some will say stay for ten years, some will not.
We also have to, I think, bring back in some cases civilian jobs for people like that.
And more than that, we could use our reservists because we eat they're they're extremely useful in different parts of the world.
We don't have that situation here.
Reservists are very, very useful because of their qualifications.
What's your
level that things will go okay this
It's quite good actually, to be honest.
I was at a briefing last week and I didn't get many details, but there is a joint intelligence and and a real time place called the Octagon and it's it's working very well with the uh the overview of airland and maritime spaces.
We're not s you know, we're not simple people here.
We know what's going on.
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