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Private Military Contractor

  • 27-11-2023 6:50pm
    #1
    ElapMd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭


    Hello,,

    I wanted to ask if setting up a PMC in ireland is legal, and what the process is to go about setting up.

    And also,

    I seen the pmc training offered at ESA and was wondering if the training would be recognized globally or would it only be in the countries within the ESA.

    What would be your guys’ recommendations on going about this, what training would be more adequate, and the registration process.

    thanks:)



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  • #2
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,074 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Check with Jarry first.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #3
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,989 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    There are no "countries within" the ESA. The European Security Academy is a private, commercial, provider of vocational training with, so far as I know, no sponsorship by any state or government. Like any other provider of vocational training, they can apply to have their courses recognised/validated by national qualifications bodies. That would be a course-by-course thing; different courses offered by the ESA may be validated by different qualifications authorities and some may not be validated at all. That's something you'd have to investigate in relation to the particular course that you were thinking f taking.

    Setting up a private military contractor business in Ireland would be fraught with difficulty, not least because of our very restrictive firearms legislation. Pretty much all training and exercises would need to take place outside Ireland and I think weaponry would also need to be kept outside Ireland, and of course that would have to be done in compliance with the law of the country where it happened. Given all that, what would be the point of having the legal establishment/head office in Ireland? Why not just establish the company in the country where it's going to operate?

    SFAIK there's no law in force in Ireland that would prevent an Irish person going to another country for the purpose of joining a foreign army (unless it's the army of a country at war with Ireland) or of entering the employment of a private military contracting firm (unless that firm was providing services to a country at war with Ireland) or of training at an institution like the ESA.



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