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:

Second, we have had a lot of retirements.

The single pension scheme, which was brought introduced in 2013, sets the new standard for people who have entered more recently. The third point is that with regard to the ages, it is in the White Paper and it is something we will look at to make sure we keep the military capability at the level it needs to be and support the Defence Forces in that, while looking at the changes in the population generally. That is something that is on our radar.