Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised)
9:30 am
Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Air Corps operational flight hours amounted to 5,009 in 2014. They amounted to 3,894 in 2015 and 4,286 in 2016. There is a replacement for the Cessna aircraft and we are purchasing a new Pilatus aircraft as well for training purposes to replace the one that was in a training accident in 2008 or 2009. That will come on stream this year.
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