Cathal Berry
Question:
693. Deputy Cathal Berry asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 322 of 25 May 2021, if figures will be provided for the remaining troop rotations to UNTSO, MINURSO, MONUSCO, EUTM, KFOR, EU-BiH and UNNY. [31057/21]
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The detailed information sought by the Deputy is not readily available within the time frame sought. At the request of my Department the military authorities are conducting the search, retrieval and collation of same. I will arrange to have this information forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.
The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 51
I refer to the above-referenced Parliamentary Question for which it was not possible to provide a reply within the available timeframe.
In addition to the information provided in answer to Question No. 322 of 25 May 2021, the table attached sets out the costs of troop rotations to the missions specified. However, certain troop rotations are the responsibility of the United Nations and the costs associated with these rotations are therefore not met by Defence Forces budget allocation. Examples of such instances can be seen in the table below for UNNY in each of the years specified and for UNTSO in 2016, 2017 and 2020.
Table 1: Costs of Defence Forces troop rotation to missions overseas in the years 2016-2021
