Dr. Edward Burke

Unfortunately, they don't at present, or they didn't on the night in question.

The Air Corps has some capacity in terms of being able to monitor

the maritime space, and that's the C-295 aircraft, and that's welcome.

It's a limited capacity.

But I think for me, what was more worrying is that was the structural response by the state to this very serious incident.

I would expect in other jurisdictions that a national security advisor, a director of intelligence who is sort of

runs the Joint Intelligence Committee that feeds into a National Security Council, that they would come up with an assessment and they would make part of that assessment public to try and reassure citizens that they are taking this seriously and they are taking reasonable steps to work with the European Commission, European partners to come to conclusions as best they can.

So we haven't got that.

There is a hollow there at the middle whereby citizens are not getting clear communications

And we don't have this type of structural leadership.