Mr. Graham Doyle:

It is a ten-year contract. It was advertised in 2010 and is the Department's most significant contract. It is a contract to provide the search and rescue helicopter service at four bases in Ireland and was signed in 2013. There may be a potential to extend it on a year-by-year basis for up to three years. There was a review of search and rescue and the new contract provides for significantly updated and more capable helicopters. We previously used S-61 helicopters with 30 year old airframes but they were replaced with the S-91 helicopter.