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Taxpayers are paying nearly four times as much to employ an overseas company to get stricken Naval Service patrol ships operating, than they would hav.
Officials at the Dept of Defence, advised that the former flagship of the Naval Service be scrapped amid fears of repeating the “LÉ Aisling situation”.