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:

I will first deal with the Red Cross. Five million euro was allocated to our Vote and we passed that on to the Red Cross. A lot of this will come up in the 2016 account because that is when a lot of that was paid out. A total of €3.1 million was paid to 357 successful applicants. That is broken down between businesses and community-----