PDForra call on government to raise 'cursory' navy allowance for first time since 1975

David Buckley and Brian Kavanagh, Naval Service delegates at the PDForra  annual delegate conference in Trim, Co. Meath, yesterday. The navy allowance hasn’t been subject to an upward review since its introduction in 1975. Photo: Moya Nolan

An urgent increase in a navy allowance is needed to help retain people amid the ongoing personnel crisis in the service, while highly skilled technicians across the Defence Forces are not getting the wages to match their skillsets.

PDForra delegates, representing 6,500 enlisted members in the Defence Forces, passed a motion calling on the government to address the current rates of navy pay, an allowance that hasn’t been subject to an upward review since its introduction in 1975.