Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask Ms O’Keeffe about the Marine Casualty Investigation Board, MCIB. She will have been following the committee’s work on this matter. A review was initiated and carried out by Captain Steve Clinch. It was submitted to Ms O’Keeffe’s Department in July. Where stands that report? What are the Department’s intentions regarding publishing it and implementing its recommendations?

Does Ms O’Keeffe have a comment on the piece of work that was done by the barrister, Ms Roisin Lacey, back in 2010? Ms O’Keeffe might have a copy of that draft heads of legislation. It looked at the fundamentally flawed constitution of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board. We, as a State, ended up in the Court of Justice of the European Union about it for three or four years. We eventually had to take officials off that board. Ms O’Keeffe will be fully familiar with that. Could she update us on Captain Steve Clinch’s report? When will it be published? Can she give us a roadmap of when the recommendations will be implemented?