For instance, any objection to making the RFFS at Ballina a CAGRO is merely a demarcation issue.
No, its not a demarcation issue.
Peuce is correct.
Airservices firies have gone through a selection and training process to fight fires, not to also provide an air traffic service.
What if individual firies don't want to perform a function they weren't hired for? What if during the training process they don't demonstrate the required skill or aptitude? What do you do with them? Some staff capable and some not?
Last we heard @ RAPAC early last year was that neither the firies or their union were interested in being obliged to provide even a UNICOM service.
As the man said:
My point is...it's possibly not as simple or clear cut as it may seem.