Martin Ferris
Question:14 Deputy Martin Ferris asked the Minister for Defence the average cost of deploying the explosive ordnance disposal team on a single occasion. [24531/12]
View answerThursday, 17 May 2012
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Primary responsibility for the maintenance of law and order rests with An Garda Síochána. Pursuant to their role in rendering aid to the civil power, the Defence Forces have a number of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams on call, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to respond to requests received from An Garda Síochána for assistance in dealing with a suspect device or for the removal of old ordnance. The cost of individual callouts are not recorded separately as each deployment is different and this does not lend itself to providing average costs due to the unpredictable nature and location of each call-out. However, some of the associated costs involved would include the salary and allowances that are payable to the team, the cost of fuel for the distance travelled by the vehicles despatched to and from the location of the incident, and the cost of any ordnance that has to be used to dispose of the device.