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 State is its own insurer and carries its own insurance. What we do to try to minimise the overhead on the defence Vote is put a huge amount of work into health and safety, risk management and that kind of thing. We do this together with the Defence Forces. That is where we try to minimise the costs but the State carries its own insurance.