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- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Does Mr. Reynolds want to give them any credit for that fact? What would happen if people operating out of Dublin were able to speak Spanish? They would get a big pat on the back for it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: It would be great to leave here with a straight answer. How long will it take to prepare a report and clear recommendations for the Minister? Can we arrange another meeting to discuss that report before it is finalised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: There is one point I forgot to make. The response from the Coast Guard management is withering in its ferocity. Its 19 pages contain comments such as "idle gossip", "lazy reasoning" and "hearsay". Fisher Associates claims that the IRCG lacks a strategic sense of direction and purpose, which is insulting to all the full-time staff and volunteers involved in the service. To state it lacks...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: All we need is someone to answer the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: In fact, Mr. Mullen said at the beginning of this discussion that a particular document or documents were not to be seen. He will see that when he reads the transcript of proceedings. He said it was not to be seen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Michael Healy-Rae: Mr. Mullen has the ability of forgetting what he said.