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:
No. We would hope not. When we get the applicants in, they go through a series of checks and balances involving security, medical and psychometric tests - all of those various checks and balances - until we get to somebody actually walking in the door. During the past six months, we have been streamlining a lot of those processes. We have made changes to our psychometric test. We are looking at the fitness test. Many of these have been scrutinised in the past six months to enable better recovery or to recoup far more from the process.