Poor wages and staffing crisis to dominate PDForra conference

The Naval Base, Haulbowline. During the three-day PDForra conference, 18 of the 42 motions down for debate have been put forward for discussion by naval service delegates. Picture: Denis Minihane

Inadequate remuneration and the continuing staffing crisis across much of the Defence Forces are set to dominate a three-day conference which gets underway on Tuesday, held by the association which represents the country's frontline military.

PDForra, which has around 6,500 members in the army, naval service, and air corps, will also seek the scrapping of unfit-for-purpose contracts for some of its members, an increase in the spending on their meagre daily food allowance, which is far less than prisoners get, and the implementation of the EU Working Time Directive.