Handouts as navy recruits wait four weeks for pay

Naval officers organised a whip-around to bail out a number of recruits who have not been paid for weeks.

PDForra deputy president Mark Keane said it was “disgraceful” that young recruits had been left waiting up to four weeks to be paid.

“NCOs and officers chipped in so they could put fuel in their cars to get home and also gave some money to pay for food for themselves and their dependents,” he said. “They did this out of their own pockets.”