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 background to that is a tragic accident that happened in October 2009 where we lost two members of the Air Corps in a training accident in Connemara in Galway. On the reason it was not until 2015 that the value was written off, it was written off the asset register immediately in 2009 but we had an internal investigation with the Government's air accident investigation report and we had an inquest. It took that time.