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  • How the Royal Navy has been looking at future MCM over the last year

    The use of autonomous equipment to support and enhance minehunting operations has taken a step forward over the past year, thanks to the successes of a Royal Navy minehunting team.

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    • Interesting abstract appears in the Defence Forces review, which was launched yesterday.
      The Maritime Community Value of a Naval Base on the East
      Coast of Ireland
      Lt/Cdr Stuart Laurence Armstrong
      The Irish Naval Service is in the process of commissioning two Lake Class Inshore Patrol
      Vessels which it has procured from the Royal New Zealand Navy. Accordingly, the Navy
      intends to station these vessels on the East Coast of Ireland and establish a Forward
      Operating Base there. This represents challenges but also the chance to harness the
      significant opportunities that the East Coast has to offer. To date the port that has received
      the majority of attention in this regard is Dún Laoghaire and as such this thesis focuses its
      research on this region.
      It is recognised from the outset that the logistical and technical aspects of the establishment
      of the base are within the capabilities of the Defence Organisation. With this supposition
      this thesis aims to inform and prepare the Navy from the perspective of the Maritime
      Community incumbent on the East Coast centred around Dún Laoghaire. The Navy must
      be aware of the Social, Industrial and Governance dynamics of the region, it is critical
      that awareness of the needs and culture of the area are fundamentally understood before
      it occupies and becomes of the Community itself. Not doing so risks exasperating any
      current issues the community may have and devalues the opportunities that have attracted
      the Navy there in the first place.
      This thesis engaged with expert stakeholders form Industry, Local Government and
      Defence. It has researched the Maritime Community of the East Coast and has provided
      recommendations to help the Navy and the incumbent East Coast Community create
      mutual value building up to and during the permanent presence of Naval Vessels in Dún
      Laoghaire. A framework detailing how value and sustainability can be generated for all
      East Coast Marine stakeholders was developed. The framework recognises three types of
      Maritime Community constituents; Port Users, Policy Makers and Population and maps
      out the forces acting on them.
      The thesis started by looking at a changing Navy but discovered an East Coast Community
      in the process of its own transition and its community constituents not knowing how
      to communicate yet. The Defence Force is in a position to enter and compliment this
      community, presenting the opportunity for the Forward Operating Base to positively
      affect and become part of the incumbent East Cast Community​
      For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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      • The inshore patrol vessels are undergoing a programme of work at the naval base. They are expected to become operational in 2024 with crew familiarisation and training. We have to do the naming and commissioning ceremonies. The Deputy was correct in saying that a forward base in Dún Laoghaire or elsewhere in Dublin is being seriously considered. We need a Dublin presence, certainly in a naval situation. Some 1.5 million people are living in Dublin. We need to be able to open up access for people to join the navy. To have young people see it in operation in their locality matters. One of the downsides of barracks closing is the loss of military tradition in recruitment. I am very conscious of that.
        Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence debate - Thursday, 1 Feb 2024 (oireachtas.ie)
        For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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