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Stick them in the Glen for 2 weeks. Charge 2k each and use the money for DF facilities.

PAYMENTS TO SPOUSES OF VETERANS OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE: 2020 - 25 2021 - budgeted for 11

May be to do with the historic nature of the payments. While it covers pensions of those, obviously who served in the Defence forces, it also covers...

I have always trivially wondered why Army Pensions is a separate Vote

http://budget.gov.ie/Budgets/2020/Documents/Budget/Part%20II%20-%20Expenditure%20Allocations%202020-22%20(A).pdf Chapter 15 - Public Expenditure -...

Actually most Votes don't have supplementary budgets. In 2019 only 7 out of 42 votes had a supplementary budgets (Health and Education being the...

As I said from reading it the DF aren’t responsible for the policing of it but the logistics and possibly elements of the admin

“Army Pensions” doesn’t come out of the “Defence” Vote it is separate. However, everyone talks about the Defence budget being over €1 billion. That...

Around 30% were Irish and of course quarantining for Covid safety reasons is an necessary precaution. Policing roles by military are a last resort...

It reads as if the logistics and management of it will be done by a very small number of DF personnel. Hotel staff, private security (and Gardai if...

Most have supplementary estimates at year end to cover them for an expected overspend. Usually in the area of pay and overtime, but sometimes for...

Defence spending versus any other spending by the state would make an interesting graph...

Defence spending versus foreign aid would make an interesting graph.

Do all other public-sector (e.g, Gardai, HSE) & Civil Service pensions come out of their allocated budget?

According to " NEWS " the Defence Forces are to be deployed to "oversee " Quarantine Residences. Could change relationship between PDF and the...

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...