Where the issue arose was with multiple plants in fairly close proximity who were sharing workshop facilities, equipment, spares and all sorts of other things.
Eg Plant A has sufficient demin water production on site for rouinte operations but the practice for a restart following a major outage was to truck more in from plant B just down the road which had much greater capacity. Or if that failed then could have got it from plant C not far away so there was a backup plan for everyone yes.
Then plant B and plant D were both depending on plant C for their auxiliary fuel supplies.
They were all sharing workshops and so on with the only one able to do some critical works on plant D being in-house at plant E.
Duplicating all that cost a fortune and some of it never was really sorted - to this day there's work that goes overseas.
My point there has nothing to do with the power industry though, I've only used that example since it's one I know about but my point is about there being no point calling upon expert advice if you're not going to listen to it.
When I got an arborist to check the trees on my property I did so because I wanted to know if they're safe or not. I didn't tell them I wanted them to be safe or unsafe, I said I wanted to know the facts and paid them to tell me.
Which brings up another point that's of some relevance to the way politicians and those close to them think and that's about a concept known as "self-regulation". That's another one where there's a divide between the working class and the upper class (for want of better terms).
Those at the coal face will admit that it's not a great system since money talks and if you want a certain outcome then just find someone who'll do it. Those at the other end of the scale pretend with a perfect poker face that this isn't how things work and it's all above board and so on. As if......