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Thus to get close to the Defence spend of the other four western liberal democracies in the OECD 5 million club in terms of direct OpEx and CapEx,...

120+ million in 8 years....what could the DF have bought/improved/built with 120 million quid....

Estimates 2021: Army Pensions - € 257,650,000 Defence - € 785,461,000 (of which DoD € 30,500,000) So very roughly 25%

What is the actual percentage of the defence budget currently allocated to pensions of former members?

I do find it strange that if there was a (hypothetical) pension increase of 100% to DF retirees, this would count as an increase in defence...

The debate over GDP, GNI, GNI* is almost as old as the hills, so to give a different perspective one could look at defence expenditure as a % of...

There is also the percentage of government expenditure which SIPRI does. Which can give an interesting comparative breakdown between similar sized...

Ireland's sons have a very long and proud history of fighting in European Armies; Spanish, French, Austrian, Swedish, Russian, German (well the...

The problem with our GNI is that we appear to be rich whereby our GNI is 70k USD pp, as against 61k USD for Iceland, and 48k USD for the UK. It is...

To be honest, the difference is negligible.

Within the EU GDP is less and less used. GNI is more often used as in calculating our contribution to the EU budget. If is good enough for that then...

We're all out of step except Patrick! War when continental is indiscriminate and hits those who need protection most. Look at the upheaval in all of...

Ah, but to some in Irish Politics, mere mention of the word Defence in a European context means immediate abandonment of neutrality, followed by...

Just as a matter to be explained--The European defence Fund exists. For instance Research is funded by Euro 500m from 2020 onwards, While Development...

They have always muddied the defence budget accounts by including pension costs within the Departments account. There is an annual sunset on other...

Percentage of government revenue (mainly taxation) to direct defence spend (OpEx and CapEx) is another matrix of comparison of defence spend between...

Any other department head who sends back money to finance at the end of the year would be regarded as incompetent. Is the DoD a dumping ground for...

The casa has always been a fishery protection asset first and foremost. This was not the case with the NS. The ships were also supposed to provide...

Like every other Defence Forces asset used in Fisheries Enforcement. https://images.app.goo.gl/2nN4Fyck5K9GhbfW9

Add to that, stop making the Defence Forces pay for other peoples responsibilities without full up front supplementary budgets or re-imbursement per...

She also had a blue and yellow quartered pennant welded on both sides of her funnel and also flew the pennant on her yard arm.

A start would be making the DOD stop sending chunks of the budget back almost every year unspent.....the DF are not a temporary piggybank for other...

We are NOT different to any other country, and all use GDP as baseline. The poor little me syndrome is daft when you think of Apples 13Bn sitting in...

oh for sure but the other eu nations are measured on this, so we should be too. In any event it doesnt change the scale too much either way i.e ...

It is but we are a strange case. We could tax them if we wanted to but we'd it once and they'd have all the revenues flowing through another tax...

However it IS the comparative metric that Eurostat compare us on so by definition that is what everyone uses . The GNI copout is just that. We...

By ether scale, even at under 1%(as it was pre 1999) we would still be spending closer to €3bn per annum on defence.

Shortly after her entry into service, L.E. Deirdre bore the Pennant number FP-20. Not sure when the F was painted over, but it was like it was...

So in essence we need to use GNI across the board

I can't believe I'm sayin this but in the Government's defence, Ireland's GDP figure is highly screwed by multinationals and is unfortunately not a...

It was a running mantra from the CS on the Defence construction board, obviously they were building a ship for FP only.

If we even brought our defence vote back to 1999 levels as a percentage, it would be an enormous boost for the Defence Forces. The question is, if...

Moving the dial to even the EU Average - 1.1% or thereabouts - would entail 500% increase in Defence spending. Even Portugal which is fairly poor...

The UNIMOGS

At least Iceland does the decent thing and lets foreign forces protect it's territory. No pretence of neutrality. Though looking at the cesspit that...

I remember that the main armament on P20 (L60) had a date of manufacture of 1948. Our DoD had a history of messing up military equipment purchases....