Main points of Price Waterhouse review of the Naval Service and the Air Corps:
A £235 million re-equipment plan, including an eighth ship and Naval Service fleet replacement over 18 years
Purchase of four medium-lift helicopters to allow the Air Corps to bid for search and rescue
Replacement of existing helicopter and fixed wing craft by smaller number of single-type craft
Increase in Naval Service to about 1,200
Cut in Air Corps numbers to 930
Criticism of centralised structure of Defence Forces and lack of devolved powers to Naval Service and Air Corps commands
Relocation of Naval Service and Air Corps headquarters from Dublin to Haulbowline, Co Cork and Baldonnel, Co Dublin, in the long term
No privatisation of fisheries protection
More efficiency and cost-effective performance.