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Defence Forces Management System.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 June 2004

Tuesday, 15 June 2004

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John Bruton

Question:

143 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for Defence if the integrated personnel management system, promised in the Joint Programme, has been introduced; and the way in which this programme interacts with decentralisation.

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Initial proposals for an integrated personnel management system, IPMS were developed by the military authorities and then referred to the top-level civil-military Strategic Management Committee for further development. Some of the key proposals were then put to the associations representing officers and enlisted personnel late last year in the context of the negotiations on the application to the Defence Forces of Sustaining Progress. Those negotiations also involved the preparation of an action plan covering the development and implementation of a range of modernisation elements, including key IPMS elements.

Those negotiations were successful in the period before Christmas and both associations signed up to Sustaining Progress and to the implementation of the action plan over the period to mid-2005. The implementation process is now under way.

Given the country wide deployment of the Defence Forces, the IPMS was always predicated on, and designed for, what is a decentralised organisation.

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