Recruitment and retention crisis continues
Last year 269 successfully sought to leave, 336 departed in 2022, some 289 soldiers bought their way out in 2021 and 260 in 2020.
Lilly Higgins: My coddle is a bit different to the Irish classic recipe, but it’s still a one-pot wonderMr Martin said “a small percentage of recruits and apprentices will be required to pay a nominal fee for ‘discharge by purchase’” and the majority of personnel who “owe a service undertaking” or leave before their contract expires are obliged to pay a “nominal fee below €5,000″.
Discharge by purchase occurs, the Tánaiste said, “when a noncommissioned officer or private elects to leave the Defence Forces and pays an appropriate sum to discharge”. The figures show privates who had served for more than a year accounted for the largest group seeking to depart the service, with 699 leaving over the past five years.
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