Mr. Brian Spain:

Each county has a Civil Defence officer and they come together in Roscrea periodically to be briefed on what is going on and to try to co-ordinate. We also conduct exercises. We have just finished a round of regional exercises whereby teams from various parts of the country come together. We are very conscious of the fact that any assets we have should be available as widely as possible and shared and should not become the domain of any one individual county.