Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 3 July 2024
50. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of serving members of the Defence Forces who have ever been issued with a serving order, a protection order, or a barring order, in tabular form. [28485/24]
View answerI wish again to express my unequivocal condemnation of any form of gender-based violence. Such behaviour has no place in a modern society or in the Defence Forces.
It is also important that I note at the outset the pride we share in the vast majority of the men and women of the Defence Forces who serve the nation so admirably at home and on peacekeeping missions abroad. The actions of a minority completely go against the values of the Defence Forces and have no place in a modern workplace, particularly an organisation which is there to protect.
As the Deputy will be aware, family law cases are held in-camera due to the nature of these proceedings and the confidentiality applied to the parties involved in such cases.
