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:
As I tried to say at the beginning of the discussion, we have put in certain retention measures. We have increased the recruitment age to 39. We have increased the age up to which members can serve to 60, and we are going to go to 62 when we get the legislation in place. They are significant retention measures we have put in place. We have increased the salary between 2021 and 2024. It is now €39,000 to start, a 34% increase-----