Women of Honour want Department of Defence off oversight board

Members of the Women of Honour group Diane Byrne, Yvonne O'Rourke, Honor Murphy, and Roslyn O'Callaghan arrive for a meeting with Tánaiste Micheál Martin at Government Buildings last Tuesday. Picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos

The Women of Honour group want any appointees to the Oversight Board for the Defence Forces made by the Tánaiste to first be vetted for “appropriateness” by the Oireachtas defence committee.

The group also says it does not want the secretary general of the Department of Defence, Jacqui McCrum, to be a member of the Oversight Board.