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
Mr. David Geraghty:
For our own civil servants, it increased to pay the arrears of pay and pensions from the extension of the Building Momentum national pay agreement, which came in the last quarter of the year. For our civilian employees it arose because the Covid lockdown finished, and we had to ramp up the service again.