Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport
Chapter 5 - Expenditure on Night Vision Imaging Technology and Training for Search and Rescue
Special Report 113 of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Procurement of Vehicles by the Irish Coast Guard

9:30 am

Mr. Eugene Clonan:

Yes, concise. We are responsible for delivering a world-class search and rescue, ship casualty and pollution-response regime. For search and rescue we carry out regular exercises like mass rescue from ships and that type of thing. We carried out an exercise in the Irish Sea this spring and also down in County Kerry this autumn. We worked with the other principal response agencies, PRAs, that is, the HSE, local authorities, An Garda Síochána and the National Ambulance Service so that exercise programme is in place. On maritime casualties, ships breaking down and threatening pollution and pollution response, we have a new national contingency plan for that and we exercise that regularly with the PRAs. I have been very concise. Is that okay?

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