Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No.115:

In page 63, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:

86.—(1) It is the duty of a safety critical worker and is deemed to be a term of his or her contract of employment or contract of services (whether made before or after the passing of this Act) with a railway undertaking or with a person who has a contract of services with a railway undertaking—

(a) not to perform a safety critical task while being unfit,

(b) not to make himself or herself available to perform a safety critical task by attending at work while being unfit,

(c) not to do anything that is an offence under section 96,

and

(d) to comply with the railway undertaking's code of conduct and sampling procedures.

(2) It is the duty of a railway undertaking to take reasonable steps to ensure that a safety critical worker complies with his or her duties under subsection (1).

(3) In this section, "unfit" has the meaning assigned to it in section 96.".

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