Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Some of the proposal the association was putting forward today was that the six volunteers, non-officers, would be elected by the representative volunteer body on to the Coastal Unit Advisory Group, CUAG, and that there would be an alteration in the terms of reference of CUAG to be more of a representative body. We have not seen the details of this but work has been carried out in this regard.

There will also be a look at the process in respect of appeals, and whatever, and work has also been done on that. Would CUAG object to that if it was a way to resolve this? Mr. Murray must accept that the fact of this representative body being established tells us something is not operating smoothly, in whatever language one wants to use. Many of these people appear to be very reasonable so could Mr. Murray not see this operating here, where one sees it with various other bodies? CUAG would still continue to be the representative body but it would have a mechanism by which the volunteers could be elected on to CUAG.