Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Department of Defence (Revised)
2:30 pm
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The annual travel plans are developed based on anticipated operational training and overseas commitments. It can be demand led. I suspect the figure was up slightly in 2014 because there was extra travel back and forth to New York because of what was happening in the Golan Heights. Certainly I was there and I would not otherwise have been in New York.