Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Role of Irish Coast Guard: Discussion
Mr. Niall Ferns:
I can take that question. Greystones was a unique situation. As Deputy O'Keeffe knows, there was a harbour development there. I was very involved in trying to get the Coast Guard station across the line for many years. A whole community section has been built in Greystones harbour. Six organisations have been put in a section of the harbour and we have a state-of-the-art facility to go in there. We got it across the line this year, so it is well under way but it is on a dedicated site which sits on the old pier in Greystones. Technically, that caused much additional work in preparing the station to go in. We are delighted that the Greystones station is across the line and will be in a state-of-the-art location within the harbour.
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