All senior military officers ordered to appear before Chief of Staff today following Crotty controversyNatasha O’Brien says she is willing to meet McEntee to discuss violence in IrelandOfficers are to gather at Baldonnell Aerodrome for an address by Chief of Staff Lieut Gen Seán Clancy and the Defence Forces Director of Legal Services Col Richard Brennan.
Separately, it is understood the Government is considering introducing a statutory instrument to amend Defence Forces Regulations and allow for personnel to be suspended if charged with a serious offence. “He is adamant that the Defence Forces is a place where no one convicted of serious physical assaults, sexual offences or domestic or gender-based violence can continue to be in active service.”
He responded: “Yes. Yes, they should. I’m conscious that there are processes that have to be gone through but I don’t think it’s a radical concept to say that if you have a criminal conviction, particularly a criminal conviction as the regulations says for something that merited a custodial sentence, be it served or suspended, then you shouldn’t be in the Defence Forces. That’s the regulation. And that regulation needs to be applied.
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