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

Ms Jacqui McCrum:

The Defence Forces are apolitical - like civil servants, we are apolitical - so the Deputy is quite correct when he says they would not be out there advocating for change necessarily through those mediums.