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- 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: Moreover, when a freedom of information request was submitted, there were attempts by senior management to prevent the information coming out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: Five pages of criticism of senior management were boiled down to a paragraph and the only person who did not see it was the Minister. I am sure he would be appalled if he were here today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: They were not justifying their position. We are talking about a criticism by stakeholders of senior management. This was an independent review.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: Did he not say it on RTE during the summer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: Did he not say on RTE during the summer that it could be run from one station?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: I pay tribute to the volunteers in the Irish Coast Guard, as well as those working on the front line in Malin, Valentia and Dublin. The Department hired the consultancy firm to prepare the report and believed it to be competent. Many members have spoken on the report. I refer to the draft and what it stated about senior management. Was the assistant secretary of the Department aware of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: Is it not a substation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Review of Irish Coast Guard Service: Discussion (24 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: So no one else could fix it.