Search and Rescue Service Provision
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-17
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

That is a contract that is worth approximately €221 million. The aircraft should be delivered in 2023. It takes time. The idea that we are not ploughing money into the Air Corps and that its future is in any way threatened just does not stack up. We are doing the opposite: we are building capacity.

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Sitting date: 2020-11-17