Vice Admiral Mark Mellett made his views known while addressing, for the first time, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence.
I do wonder at the DoD sometimes I cannot see what the gain is there.
It emerged last month in Dáil exchanges between Mr Chambers and the Minister of State with responsibility for defence, Paul Keogh, that a series of recommendations to deal with pay and personnel retention problems, which the Strategic Planning Branch of Vice Admiral Mellett’s office prepared and gave to the department, were stripped out of the submission that the department in turn gave to the commission.
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