Mr. John O'Mahony:

Yes, they have been added just recently. We do not know, however, the method that was used to put them on that group. We believe there are three of them there now. In the past, CUAG has had no change in how it operates. The first time the body contacted volunteers was in November 2021, after this committee had representatives of the Coast Guard appear before it. Within a few weeks of that meeting, Mr. Farr, along with several others, was contacted by CUAG for the first time in 21 years. I refer to statements like that. We had an email from one of the members of the crew at Doolin, that has now been stood down. In that email, he wrote that the volunteers there needed help, that they did not know how to help themselves, only how to help others. Those volunteers knew how to go out to help the public and to rescue people. They did not know, however, what to do when things started to go against them. They needed a volunteer representative association.