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:
We have an existing structure. As I said, there are approximately 380. We have various corps across all the locations. The Deputy will see that profiled in the report. The stock is held mainly in Dublin, Cork, Kildare or wherever.
They match into the structure of the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps and there is overseas. That is subject to change. The Commission on the Defence Forces said that structure should change and has to change. There is no point in changing the stores to match a structure that you are then going to change.