Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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No. I will have to check but I am not aware of any. I am informed we did not bring any agencies. No agency sits under that function.

It is a very technical function. The people in there have a high degree of expertise in this area. There are highly qualified personnel, many at doctorate level, so it is a specialist unit in itself. There are some relationships between that unit and the Marine Institute. In some of the funding lines it can be seen where that fund supports work carried out on that unit's behalf by the Marine Institute and there is a service level agreement between the two. That is the only relationship that exists and that transfers with it.