Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I echo some of what Deputy O'Rourke said. This has been a common theme at the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. I too would like to see the Irish Coast Guard Volunteers Representative Association afforded the opportunity to meet the Minister and contribute to matters in this area. We have heard repeatedly that volunteers feel there are inadequacies regarding the hierarchy of the organisation. It was very unusual, on the day the top personnel of the Irish Coast Guard were before the committee, that we were all getting texts and emails from volunteers around the country, feeding questions and content into the meeting. This suggests there are some managerial inefficiencies, to say the least. I ask the Minister of State, who is doing a good job and has hit the ground running, to take full oversight of this. My colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, referred to the death of Catríona Lucas. The Marine Casualty Investigation Board needs to have oversight of that. We also need the release, finally, of the Clinch report, which has been held back for far too long.

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