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:
The policy parameters were to keep the aircraft viable for as long as possible within the €400,000 annual service limit. Anytime there was an exception, we signed off on it on an annual basis. We were driven by the policy imperative that the service be kept going. There was no formal process of evaluation at that stage.