500 fan,
The commercial helicopter industry in Ireland is on it's knees. The few companies that are left should have been able to at least price that job, and maybe one of them get a turn out of it. The IAC craves public attention at every opportunity to justify its existence and in my opinion is a jack of all trades and master of none.
From a military point of view it seems it has little to do at the mo. Grant it, it did do a good job at helping out farmers in difficulty in NI during the cold spell earlier in the year along with the AAC and RAF, but using the term "aid to the civil power" to do commercial operators out of business should not be happening.
