If I am to have an observer, let Cheval go.

OVERSIGHT * Allows Treasury Department to have an observer attend board meetings of companies that receive federal money.

Over the last year it had put in 20 notices requiring a skipper to have an observer on board before they could sail.

However, ICAI's foot-dragging response to Ms Harney's initial request to have an observer present at the meetings has not enhanced the standing of the institute.

Mr Halley said around 30 percent of boats had an observer in low-risk areas.

The OCI, who had an observer in vice-president Shay McDonald in Vienna, will also fund the Ireland team for the high-profile tests in Sheffield.

Blaine was nosing about one of the machines that was like the others, only a trifle larger and had an observer's seat behind the pilot's.