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:

It costs an average of €3,700 per hour to fly the Learjet. We know that and it is all the sunk costs in the Learjet. What we are looking at for the future are the services that will be required by the State in the broadest context-----