Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Irish Coast Guard: Discussion
Mr. Eugene Clonan:
Absolutely. From 2017 to date, there has been a 20% increase in staff numbers. I am introducing a phased increase. I approached the management board in 2017 or 2018 and said that to implement the recommendations and do the work required, I needed to build the Coast Guard. However, if a lot of staff had joined the organisation at that point, it would have tipped it. There are three members of staff in the safety, quality and compliance section, comprising a safety officer, compliance officer and a person in charge. The operations section has been readjusted. The next section we are looking at and reviewing is the Coast Guard unit and support section, which is the section that supports the volunteers on the coast. The staff members there know that, because I have told them. They can see it.
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