Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Irish Coast Guard: Discussion
Mr. Eugene Clonan:
If I look at a similar organisation in a similar country, Maritime New Zealand, which has similar volunteers, there is a rescue co-ordination centre and I do not think there are any volunteers in it or in the management structure. I am not discounting it. Reference was made to the word "disconnect". I do not think we have a disconnect with the CUAG, but obviously something is going on. On whether volunteers can be part of the full-time structure, at the moment we are not structured to allow a volunteer to be a member of staff.
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