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

Mr. Maurice Quinn:

Mr. Des Dowling was saying to me that the assumption on the part of Gulfstream and on our part was that, given the state of the aircraft, it would most likely be broken down for parts. We went back to Rolls Royce, the original equipment manufacturers of the engines, which would be the most valuable part of the jet, to see if it was interested in it. However, it was not interested in taking the engines either.