Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I genuinely appreciate how restricted the Minister is in what he can say about an ongoing investigation, but what happened in the past does not absolve the Department or any of us from needing to ensure that an audit has been conducted so that the equipment used by people working in the Coast Guard has been tested and found to be fit for purpose. I will not ask the Minister to comment on previous events, but surely the Department has conducted an audit within the past 12 months and satisfied itself that everything was fit for purpose.