Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The search-and-rescue boat operations training contractor was engaged in 2014. Irish Coast Guard management, however, was repeatedly told the contractor did not meet the standard required to deliver search-and-rescue boat operations training and that the instructors employed by the contractor did not have the qualifications, experience or knowledge required to deliver search-and-rescue training. A survey was conducted of all Coast Guard boat units in 2015 and the exact same result came back. It was also totally ignored. The contractor is still in place delivering courses which do not exist or for which it does not have the required qualifications.

It seems to be a case of jobs for the boys again. Can the Minister of State examine look into this and see what is happening within the Coast Guard unit?

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