Mr. Eugene Clonan:

The sector meetings are push and pull because we are down on site with the teams. We bring six teams together, for example, in Cork. They come in for the day. We are with them all day. We have a series of things to say. They have a series of things to say. Generally, it is getting a briefing on how are things on the ground and how are things getting on. The same applies to the OIC conference.

The CUAG is an extremely important group that we have. I will explain how it operates. We are joined at the hip with it. There are nine members. They are voted in. There is a representative of the cliff team. There is a member representing the boat teams. There is a member representing the search team, the ordinary volunteer and the different grades. There are nine members. We meet them on a very regular basis.

For anything we are inputting into the Coast Guard, such as new equipment, personal protection equipment, PPE, training and incidents, we set up technical advisory groups. If we want to buy vehicles, for example, we set up a technical advisory group to advise us on that so that the procurement process involves them. It involves them for PPE. It involves them for anything that we are doing. It is not a customer relationship. They are us and we are them. When we are doing something, we do it with them, if you follow me.