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

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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There seems to be a lack of urgency in doing this work. I will move on because I have only nine minutes left.

My next comments are on the two Votes and I will commence with the Defence Vote. In 2015 there was a write-off of €8.2 million worth of obsolete stock compared with €4.9 million in 2014, which is an increase of 67%. I am concerned about the increase as it looks like a huge volume of obsolete stock was discovered.