Conor Lenihan (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 25:

In page 15, to delete lines 26 to 28 and substitute the following:

"13K.—(1) In addition to complying with the requirements of any other provisions of this Part a petroleum undertaking shall ensure that—".

The amendment seeks to set out clearly that while petroleum undertakings are subject to a number of obligations under this legislation, the principal duty of a petroleum undertaking will be to ensure, in so far as reasonably practicable, that petroleum activities are carried out in a manner that reduces any risk to safety to a level that is as low as is reasonably practicable and that petroleum infrastructure is also designed, constructed, installed, maintained, modified, operated and decommissioned to this standard. While I suspect the amendment is not controversial, I will leave that decision to the Deputies opposite.

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