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
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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A significant saving of €27.7 million was made on the Permanent Defence Forces, PDF, and a saving of €8 million was made on the PDF civil support. Why? Was there a higher than predicted number of retirements and lower than predicted number of recruitment in 2015? Is there a reason the number of civilian employees was less than provided in the estimate?