Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The White Paper on Defence puts sea fisheries as the service's day-to-day primary function and that is why I am so concerned about this matter. There is a lack of adequately skilled staff to put the vessels out to do what the White Paper on Defence states is the Naval Service's primary job.

The facts indicate that we do not have this so there seems to be a disconnect. I am not sure we have all the answers here but I would be concerned. Did Dr. Mellett deal with the able seaman partly qualified, PQ, and where that rank came from? What is that?