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« on: October 17, 2003, 09:18:32 pm »
In light of the Air Corps mismanagement of quite a few matters, I would be loath to give them any further responsibility. Since the first alouette air ambulance mission, they have set back and never evaluated the needs of the country. When real air ambulance was available all over the rest of Europe, they remained a ferry service for patients from hospital to hospital, carrying those that road ambulance could not carry on Irish roads, such as spinal injuries. Nowadays, when air ambulance is spoken of, it is the roadside quick response kind that is referred to.
While I agree with the reasoning that as our Air Corps, they should provide all state services, it is both unfortunate and factual, that they just cannot do it because of funding, poor management, and the unchanging culture.
Perhaps the Air Service is a better idea after all. If the Air Corps were a public company, their shares would be at rock bottom, or they would be in liquidation.
I firmly beleive that only radical re structuring of the "company", the appointment of new management from outside the corps, and a change of direction can save it. Its great to read the annual report published, and to see the theoretical and aspirational functions that are addressed. But its not happening.
I am not anti Air Corps. I would love to support the organisation that I have been a member of. But I do not support waste and mismanagement in any outfit, military or civil. To give the current Air Corps rersponsibility for air ambulance /casevac / medevac would be a disaster, and would deny the public the service they deserve, and that we would all be paying for.
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