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

Photo of Noel RockNoel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I completely agree. That insurance certificate, which was presented to the committee, was designed to generate an unfair headline in terms of financial figures. If one was to take a listed aircraft of the same specification - a newer aircraft from 1994 currently advertised online for example - with new engines, it would still come to below $5 million in sale price. Therefore, we need to be very careful in the comparisons and fair to Mr. Quinn in the comparisons, in that there were extremely extenuating circumstances, and he took a decision in real time, and I think that it should be reflected on the record that decision was fair and beneficial to the State. Would Mr. Quinn agree with that?

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