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

10:25 am

Mr. Michael Howard:

Okay. If one takes the 100 allowances, as the Deputy has noted, about one third of them apply to grades across the public service. Consequently, they would not have been generally missed. I acknowledge that one or two are unique to defence but------