I heard Minister Donahue saying there was an increase in funding for defence but no mention of numbers. Anyone able to provide clarity?
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F****** joke"He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
"No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."
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Originally posted by DeV View PostExtra €7m in Current Expenditure (which broadly covers pay & pension)
Extra €3m in Capital Expenditure (equipment, buildings, capital maintenance and ICT)
Even forgetting about Capital expenditure for a while the least I would have expected would have been a huge staff retention package across all three branches to address the current brain drain and staff shortages.
Very dissapointing
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The total current expenditure allocated for 2018 and projected to 2020 is €869 million, I imagine that is a figure meant to be adjusted for inflation/budget figure and, politics being what they are for a minority government, we can only take 2018 as certain. So % spend of budget remains unchanged at 1.4% (of the budget, not of GDP).
Capital expenditure on top of that is allocated as €77 million for 2018, €106 million in 2019 and €113 million in 2020.
It seems that they are hedging that the Defence Forces can just muddle through until debt reduction gives financial space?
The question is what kind of Defence Forces will remain by the time a future government thinks it can afford to raise the Defence budget to at least 1% of GDP.
Whatever happens, I suspect the Defence Forces need not bother looking for any significant change until 2021 or after. Brexit and the gods of economy permitting.Last edited by expat01; 10 October 2017, 16:40.
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Originally posted by expat01 View Postthumbsuck: no reason a CASA replacement won't be finalised in 2018, but I imagine the MRV will be signed off in 2019.
Question: does the 68 million for OPV4 come out of 2018 or is it already spent?For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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