Yes, it's the base closure bit that would make the SH North plot work. HQNI (still a 3* and a TLB for some reason) must relinquish control of things just "because they are there". GOCNI didn't control QUAS (!), more significantly, he didn't control (in earlier times) the Shacks at BK or Ulster Radar at Bishops Court.
Hence small (if any) NI Ops Puma Flight, majority of sqn(s?) aircraft without armoured seats or other warlike mods, so making mainland ops easier. Maybe the next Cdr JHC would be the man to "make it so".
Of course, by then, the Peace Process will have worked, you'll be able to get bladdered in the Crown wearing Tiger bow-ties, the border will be open so you can get to France on one ferry instead of two, and the whole place will be known affectionately as the "Emerald extremely well-appointed en-suite facilities".
Excuse me, there's a formation of pigs just lined up on the runway; I must away and watch them depart ....................