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:
No problem. On the point about an apparent contradiction between Mr. Fitzpatrick's advice and that of the Air Corps, in fact they are quite similar. The advice of the Air Corps, which I do not have in front of me to quote, was that given the age of the aircraft and the mileage on it, there was an increased likelihood that further significant maintenance would be required. Notwithstanding this, it made the request that the jet be retained.
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