Further delay in Defence Forces plan criticised

When the Government published, in July 2022, its High Level Action Plan for the CDF, in which it accepted the second of three options – Level of Ambition (LOA)2 – set out by the CDF, it said a detailed implementation plan would be published “within six months”, or by January 2023. File picture: Colin Keegan / Collins

Further delays to the Government’s implementation plan for the Commission on the Defence Forces (CDF) report has been widely criticised amid deepening concerns over cuts to the navy.

The Department of Defence said the implementation plan on the CDF — which reported in February 2022 — would be published “during the coming Dáil term”, which restarts at the end of September.