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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: As Senator Daly noted, it should be before any final report goes to the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Does Mr. Reynolds have a ballpark figure as to what the Department has paid Fisher Associates so far for the two reports and possibly for this other engagement with them in respect of preparing a third report before presenting it to the Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: How much is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: A sum of €50,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Under what clarification?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Mr. Mullen said the Department is further analysing the reports. Is it using other outside expertise in conducting that analysis? If so, who?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Is Mr. Mullen saying the Department has gone back to Fisher Associates and told them that it wants them to analyse the second report further, the watered down-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: In other words, Mr. Mullen is saying for a third time, that there is a little tweaking being done by Fisher Associates at the Department's direction to a third report before it is presented-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: What is Mr. Mullen saying? That is what he just said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Did he not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: He did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: We have to be clear about this. Mr. Mullen said the Department needed other assistance with the report. I asked who the outside experts were and he said the Department was staying with Fisher Associates. The Department is asking them to take a third look at the report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Yet, Mr. Mullen said-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Mr. Mullen told me that the Department has gone back to Fisher Associates again.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: I asked him what other expertise the Department was using and he replied, "Fisher Associates". Is it correct that the Department has given them further directions to tweak their report for a third time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Can we ask what was the issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Why?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: What is the headline issue? I do not ask for the detail. What section of the Fisher Associates report is the Department asking them to go back over?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Have Fisher Associates asked the same questions about the Dublin centre as they have about Malin Head and Valentia Island?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: This is not a laughing matter and if Mr. Mullen was living on Valentia Island, he would not think it is a laughing matter.