Ms Attracta U? Bhroin:

Its relationship and how it works with the expert bodies and management authorities are, as has been acknowledged, extremely unclear, not just the discretion around the management authority but who is going to hold that authority. Its role with the enforcement bodies is also an issue. Obviously, the Naval Service is our principal seagoing agency. In the context of Ireland's huge marine territory, which involves territorial seas and jurisdictions within that, the contiguous zone, the EEZ and right out to the tip of the continental shelf, the practical ability for other bodies to be able to navigate that and have the authority of a Naval Service vessel classified as a warship, with all the authority that has under UNCLOS, is something that needs to be considered very closely.