Ms Róisín McGuire:

We engaged people from the fire service in respect of training in water awareness following severe flooding over two years. We work closely with the fire service. We have also engaged people from the HSE to deliver training. Many of those who deliver training on behalf of the HSE are also Civil Defence volunteers. Another area in respect of which we have engaged outside people is missing persons searches. This is an area in which Civil Defence is involved week in, week out, throughout the country. We are reviving a course previously held in respect of missing person searches, in respect of which there is a group here from the UK for training. The Garda is working with us in the provision of this training. We also work with a group from the UK that provides rope rescue. It is hoped that we will be able to deliver more training ourselves into the future. We provide a great deal of casualty training in-house.