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- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: I want the personnel to be looked after but it speaks volumes about our public service that the Department has to go and buy private health insurance for Army personnel. I would just make that point. When the Garda Commissioner comes in here, or when we put down parliamentary questions to the Minister for Justice, we are told that the Garda Commissioner is the one who deploys the...
- 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 (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: I am not at all clear about who makes the decision.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: There would be a benefit to the Chief of Staff being the Accounting Officer because there would be a more direct arrangement in terms of the spending of those resources. I am not saying this should not go through the proper procurement process but it looks like there are two layers whereas with the Garda Commissioner, there is one layer.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Nor am I saying that is the case. However, being an Accounting Officer is a different thing. On another issue, who funds ONE?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: How much does it get from the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: There are approximately 11,000 retired Army personnel and I accept there are different age profiles and so on. However, in some cases, they would be people who had direct combat experience and who would be compromised because of that and have to be taken care of. ONE gets €130,000 and is subject to whatever it gets from charitable donations to look after retired personnel.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Do we know how much it gets from that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Is that being looked at? People look at risk in terms of where they are going to work and how they will be looked at afterwards if something happens. Is that looked at in the totality of when people are being recruited and the attractiveness of people being recruited into the Defence Forces?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: I know people would understand there is a risk with the job. Why was there such an increase in overtime payments in 2022 versus 2021?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: The Permanent Defence Forces.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Why was it increased?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: It required overtime just to get things back.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: I turn to the number of ships. We have four offshore patrol vessels and two large patrol vessels. There have been news articles about some of the vessels being tied up because they cannot be used due to personnel shortages. Is there risk analysis in respect of having to cancel or curtail deployments?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Will Ms McCrum give us some numbers? What is the current strength?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: What should it be?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: Does that mean 66% capacity in deploying ships?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: It is the technical personnel rather than overall number that is restricting the ships.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 - Army Pensions
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Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 12: Stock Management in the Defence Forces (23 May 2024) Catherine Murphy: I will dig into the technical side. How many technical people are there, and how many should there be?