Enforcement of Irelands Maritime Jurisdiction - Demands on the Naval Service

[DeV]

Presser ongoing. 2.2 tonnes of cocaine, €157m.

At least and that value depends on the purity (which isn’t known yet)

[na grohmiti]

At least and that value depends on the purity (which isn’t known yet)

Surprised at that. Forensic lab usually has a result pretty quick...

[na grohmiti]

Best summary I've seen all week.

113k views, 6200 likes a day after it was posted.
Now everyone knows.

[spider]

Best summary I've seen all week.

113k views, 6200 likes a day after it was posted.
Now everyone knows.

Good find...just a thought...the companies who own the cables must make billions from them. Should they pay a levy (or do they already) to (for example) Ireland if their cables run through the Irish EEZ in waters where they are shallow enough to be vulnerable to sabotage. That levy being in turn revenue to fund equipment and ships to protect said cables. A bit like Mariners paying General Lighthouse Fund dues to Irish Lights / Trinity House.

[spider]

And I meant to say...excellent work by all involved...interesting to note Ukrainian involvement

[na grohmiti]

And I meant to say...excellent work by all involved...interesting to note Ukrainian involvement

Is it?
Ukranians make up one of the largest groups crewing merchant vessels around the world. Most are watchkeeping officers or engineers. I'm more surprised at the Iranian presence.

[spider]

Is it?
Ukranians make up one of the largest groups crewing merchant vessels around the world. Most are watchkeeping officers or engineers. I'm more surprised at the Iranian presence.

Yes, it is interesting to note that one of the two men winched off the trawler was Ukrainian; that would indicate to me the possible involvement of Ukrainian crime gangs, because the Ukrainians ain't all the paradigms of virtue the popular press would have us believe.

Didn't know about the Iranian.

[na grohmiti]

Yes, it is interesting to note that one of the two men winched off the trawler was Ukrainian; that would indicate to me the possible involvement of Ukrainian crime gangs, because the Ukrainians ain't all the paradigms of virtue the popular press would have us believe.

Didn't know about the Iranian.

Every nation has criminal gangs. Ukraine is nothing special in that regard. Apparently Irish criminal gangs facilitated the entire operation.

[EUFighter]

The most recent events have once again shown our lack of capability and is only one of a long line of wake-up calls that will likely go unheard.

In the CoDF the LoA2 put forward double crewing and the LoA3 a balanced fleet of 12 ships. And when we look at the current situation of only being able to put 2 ships in service that is a massive increase. If we just went for a fleet of P60s (8 more) crewed to be a bit more redundant we would end up needed a Establishment of around 2000. But if we go for a more balanced fleet then we look at an Establishment of between 3000 to 4000! That would need not only a massive shift in recruitment but also in the division between the other services. Seeing that we have a major problem getting up to the current establishment level doing things the same way will not work.

[1798]

Extra.ie reporting that Naval allowances will be increased in the budget, see news.

[na grohmiti]

Extra.ie reporting that Naval allowances will be increased in the budget, see news.

They call it overtime though, which speaks multitudes for their journalistic accuracy.
Hopefully the substance of the piece is correct though. We'll know soon enough.
I notice an overspend from Health looming though (how is this possible) which will be used as an excuse for all things.

[Jaque'ammer]

They call it overtime though, which speaks multitudes for their journalistic accuracy.
Hopefully the substance of the piece is correct though. We'll know soon enough.
I notice an overspend from Health looming though (how is this possible) which will be used as an excuse for all things.

The current line is it's due to inflation, so it'll probably be brushed under the table after taking a chunk out of this year's surplus

[Sparky42]

They call it overtime though, which speaks multitudes for their journalistic accuracy.
Hopefully the substance of the piece is correct though. We'll know soon enough.
I notice an overspend from Health looming though (how is this possible) which will be used as an excuse for all things.

Because it's the Health Budget, it will always consume its budget and demand more, so of that is for actual reasons (at the very least the growing population at both ends increases demand) and some of it for not so good reasons (the systemic disaster that is the HSE and all of its components)...

[EUFighter]

Because it's the Health Budget, it will always consume its budget and demand more, so of that is for actual reasons (at the very least the growing population at both ends increases demand) and some of it for not so good reasons (the systemic disaster that is the HSE and all of its components)...

And just like in many areas including defence nothing will happen. The people in change get paid a lot of money and in the case of health we pay a lot for the Ho HSE and the Secretary at the Department of Health. And here we see a difference the HSE decides how it spend its money, the DF cannot! We will again this year have a surplus which will be handed back to the DoF or DoPE not sure why we need both either! That money would be more than enough to restore the allowances and even increase them.