Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 January 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet

9:00 am

Mr. Maurice Quinn:

There was a political decision that the jet was to be used no further. The question thereafter was how we could get the best value in the disposal of the jet. We knew that it would cost €1.34 million to repair it and that we were accumulating costs up to a potential €500,000 to Gulfstream for the work that was ongoing at that stage. In those circumstances and with the advice we had received-----

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