Written answers
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Coast Guard Service
9:00 pm
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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Question 153: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when will Malin Head Coast Guard station, County Donegal be upgraded with integrated communications system. [10031/11]
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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Question 154: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to build a new Coast Guard station at Malin Head, County Donegal. [10032/11]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 153 and 154 together.
The equipment for the Marine Rescue Sub co-ordination Centre (MRSC) Malin Head was delivered in 2010. It will be installed into a technical room in late 2011/early 2012 and the MRSC will go live on the new system during 2012. When the new building on the Malin Head MRSC site is completed in 2014, subject to funding, the ICS equipment will be re-installed there.
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