Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 February 2024

Committee on Public Petitions

Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion

Mr. Justin Delaney:

I will add one thing to what Mr. Pinkster said. When the ship is built in the shipyard, if it is built with a construction mistake and the stability did not pass the suitable criteria, the shipowner for whom the ship was being built has every right to refuse the vessel. The shipyard would be stuck with the ship at a huge loss. In this case, as there were 11 sister vessels, and we have more or less proven that seven of them were constructed right, while the remaining four were wrong, we can see why it went down this path and just gave stability booklets for the four incorrect vessels with similar information as the seven correct ones. However, if anybody does any research into them, it can be seen, even from photos of the four incorrect vessels, that they look totally different from the seven correct ones. They are much heavier in the water and just look different. They were built incorrectly with too much weight. It does not take a lot of investigation to come up with this. It has already been proven.

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