Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 May 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Defence
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces
9:30 am
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Does Ms McCrum accept that the Chief of Staff is in a difficult position? Other agencies of government - often to the detriment of Government policy or the Minister - advocate in public for their service or improvements in their service. They may make a public case against or to the Department. The Chief of Staff is not in that same position. The Chief of Staff is in a much more difficult position and his only mechanism to increase resources and make policy changes is through yourself.