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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....

Restrictive Credit Framework for Defence. As GDP rises , maintain same Defence spend, and percentages fall. 1999 spend at .80% of 100Bn. In 2019...

Do you believe that there was a genuine threat to funding if the vessels were appropriately armed or was it a convenient excuse to avoid spending the...

Yes, AFAIK, P60 onwards were ours. I was directly involved in the building of P20's next sister and was constantly reminded by DOD reps that the EU...