Help save southeast search and rescue helicopter service

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The Department of Transport is planning to downgrade the Coast Guard
search and rescue helicopter service in the southeast.
Search and rescue helicopter bases in Dublin, Shannon and Sligo are
to remain with 24-hour cover, but the Waterford service, operated from
Waterford regional airport, is to be reduced to a 12-hour, daylight only
service. This would save an estimated €1m per year.
Fishermen's organisations, RNLI members and politicians in the
southeast have expressed outrage about the downgrading of the service.

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Contact Information
suggest that you would contact Noel Dempsey T.D. Minister for Transport at Transport House, 44 Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Department of Transport,
Transport House,
Kildare St., Dublin 2, Ireland.

Tel:
or Locall 1890 443 311

Email: info@transport.ie


Ps,i took this info from the good lads at rinnashark sea-angling club waterford,its a shame,something needs to be done about this as usual before its to late,this affects us all,and got forbid martyn needs no extra time fishing ,eddie........

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STATEMENT BY BRIAN OSHEA TD

Labour Party TD, Waterford
Monday, 15 March 2010

GOVERNMENT MUST SCRAP PLANS TO DOWNGRADE MARINE RESCUE SERVICE


I was shocked to hear today that the Government has plans to reduce to a daylight-only operation, the marine search and rescue service at Waterford Regional Airport.

Over the last two years we have seen the Government embark on one crude cost-cutting exercise after another, but this is a step too far, and the people of Waterford and the South East will simply not stand for it

Effectively the Dept of Transport is saying that the safety of fishermen in other parts of the country is more important than that of fishermen in the South East.

There is no justification for this, and I demand that the Government scrap this unfair and unreasonable plan. I will be raising this most serious matter in the Dail next week.

This Government somehow believes that people in the South East will take any type of ill-treatment, and not retaliate come a general election. This region deserves it fair share, just as any other region does, and the days of short-changing the South East must end forthwith.

ENDS

Contact Brian OShea 087-294-3292

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this is a disgraceful decision,this government could find two million for haiti,to look good in the eyes of the world,but ignore the safety of there own people.the sooner this government is out of office the better.
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