Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, that is how I understand it as well. We must stand back from that but these people are entitled to ask, given the years they have served, why, how and what happens next. I suppose they are some of the questions that will remain unanswered after today but I hope the committee can get more substantial answers in that respect.

We undertook a body of work relating to the Irish Coast Guard and it seems certain competencies were being watered down. That was the view of the volunteers in contact with us.

One of them is rope work and harness work. They did a lot of this, and I am speaking from the knowledge I have of the station in Doolin. This would have been undertaken off a heavy-loaded girder across the roof. These are vital training skills that they regularly employed in the real environment on cliff faces and so forth, but they were told not to do that. Is that still the case?