Over €13,000 has been spent on providing cleaning products to prevent Covid-19 at Custume Barracks since the start of the pandemic up to the end of last month.
Figures released to Shannonside Northern Sound reveal that almost €3,000 was also spent on supplying and fitting 13 Perspex screens to various locations in the barracks for protection purposes.
The Defence Forces has confirmed that the works carried out by the Second Brigade Engineers Group during the Covid 19 pandemic would only account for a small portion of the overall works carried out at the Athlone facility up to the end of July.
A total of €13,000 was spent on a multitude of cleaning products and materials, including over twelve hundred euro on heavy duty refuse bags, as well as thirteen hundred euro on hand soap and fifty mop bucket wringers which cost a total of €2,237.
Other items purchased included disposable knives, forks, spoons and polystyrene round plates.
The purchases of cleaning cloths and heavy duty gloves cost €1996, while the installation of thirteen perspex screens cost a total of €2900.
Almost seven thousand euro was also spent on hand gel at the barracks up to the end of July
The overall total spend for in Covid prevention measures was €24,913.58.
