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Thursday, 4 July 2024

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Pauline Tully

Question:

141. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of competitions held to date in 2024 for Defence Forces personnel to apply to join the Defence Forces School of Music; and the number of Defence Forces personnel, by rank, that applied for each of the competitions that were held to date this year, in tabular form. [28656/24]

Written answers

Tánaiste and Minister for Defence

I have been advised by the military authorities that no competitions for the Defences Force School of Music have been held to date in 2024.

A recruitment campaign for instrumentalists resulted in 7 instrumentalists being inducted in September 2023.  A Captain level (Conductor) appointment is anticipated from the Conductor campaign which closed in December 2023.

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