Auditor General queries prescribing costs

LIVING quarters provided by the Defence Forces for serving members are under-used and sometimes abused, the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) report has found.

Just 77% of married quarters and only 59% of single quarters were occupied with continued difficulties over the occupation of living quarters by some members who had been discharged, but refused to move.

Of 54 such properties identified in 2002 the CAG was told that 10 had since been vacated, four had been bought by the occupiers and a further 11 had been offered for sale to the occupiers, leaving continuing uncertainty over 29.