Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion

4:00 pm

Mr. Chris Reynolds:

They did not understand that, for example, IT was not inside the Coast Guard but was somewhere else so the ability to change our IT systems was not contained within the Coast Guard. They did not understand the 21 day search. Remember the response of the people in Union Hall to the Tit Bonhomme. My concern was that they looked at the Coast Guard effectively on the right-hand side of the balance sheet as something that incurred a loss and was expensive and needed to be looked at. We were trying to point them in the direction of seeing the Coast Guard as an investment now and for the future. That was the dialogue that went on. It was a matter of explaining to them where in their documents-----

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