Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 36: Defence - Review of Allowances
10:55 am
Mr. Brian O'Keeffe:
We do and we have done a lot of work on this issue. Internationally it is common that pay structures are complex. Some armies pay overtime but the experience is that when one is on exercise with such armies, the exercise stops at a certain time. That is not a situation we would like to see in Ireland.