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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: Which part of catastrophic failure does Mr. Mullen not understand? He admitted that catastrophic failure means that spares make no difference and he is attempting to say that if they had spares, it would have solved the problem. He had allowed Malin and Valentia for the last four years to have equipment that is subject to catastrophic failure and he is trying to pretend here that having a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: If one of them suffered catastrophic failure, will Mr. Mullen admit that it could not be brought up and repaired with spares? Does he understand that? Motorola issued a death certificate in respect of that equipment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: Pardon?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: It has not changed. If Motorola said this equipment was liable to catastrophic failure at any moment and it issued a death certificate in respect of it to Mr. Mullen's Department, is Mr. Mullen telling me that having a few spares in a box in Dublin or in Valentia would make any difference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: Chairman, I am asking the assistant secretary of the Department if the equipment-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I do not believe the assistant secretary is doing so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: It seems they do not understand the meaning of catastrophic failure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: The assistant secretary is telling me that if the Department had spares it could fix equipment what was subject to catastrophic failure. Is that what he is trying to sell to this committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: Could a catastrophic failure of the equipment in Valentia occur, the possibility of which was stated in a report to the Minister for Transport in 2007, and which was the reason Malin and Valentia stations were told there was a need to shut them down? The Department told us four years ago that the equipment in the stations in Malin, Valentia and Dublin was subject to catastrophic failure at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: We will ask the engineer. Is it correct that the entire equipment was subject to catastrophic failure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: We know how equipment works - there are small bits to it. Could the entire equipment be subject to catastrophic failure, as Motorola said?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: Catastrophic failure means it will all shut down in one go, as I understand it, and that no amount of spares would make any difference. A death certificate would mean the equipment would fall apart at any moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: My concern is that the Department did nothing for the past four years, even though it was instructed to do something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: The problem is that for four years the Department was willing to have equipment in the Malin and Valentia stations that was subject to catastrophic failure and it was relying on spares. I note the engineer is wincing a little but the Department told us that equipment could fail at any moment, Motorola issued a death certificate in respect of it and for four years the Department allowed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: Mr. Mullen just said that senior management's view was that there should be one station, I presume in Dublin-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: If it is management's view that there should be one station, located in Dublin, what does that sound like to Mr. Mullen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: They gave three options. I am reading the draft and trying to find where they said there should only be two stations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: It is not in the first draft.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: What I am talking about here is manipulation in regard to the report given to the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: The problem is that Mr. Mullen keeps contradicting himself.