Maritime officers at the three Irish Coast Guard stations will have to adopt new working regimes after the Government opted to keep them open.

There is a sense of deja vu about all this.

Senior management at the Irish Coast Guard has slated parts of the first draft of a report into the service which Transport Minister Leo Varadkar is using to push through major reforms and cost-cutting rationalisation, with the likely closure of Valentia and Malin Head stations.