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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: There are a number of conventions, as the Deputy has referenced. This is separate to that. There are some that relate to the International Maritime Organization, which would be underpinned by primary legislation. In the legislative programme within the Department, we have a number of priority actions on enacting some of the international conventions that relate to maritime. There is a...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: We will send the committee a note. I receive a six-monthly briefing on multi-annual legislative programmes as they relate to maritime safety and maritime conventions more generally. There is a work programme that will go on for a number of years. We have sought to prioritise that. As the Deputy knows, there is draft legislation before the committee and the Minister for Transport, Deputy...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: I will send a wider note-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: -----because there is a comprehensive note on a number of technical areas that will require enactment for the next number of years. I will send that to the committee.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: Yes, if we can get it scheduled, the plan will be to get it ratified as quickly as possible.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: As you know, Acting Chair, the Defence Forces, including the Naval Service and the Air Corps, have a primary role when it comes to strategic defence matters, so that is a matter for the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to respond to. The Naval Service plays an important role in the protection of our territorial waters.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: As I set out in my speech, the requirements for the ratification of membership are approximately €18,000, which is covered by the Department. More generally, a portion of the income of the Commissioners of Irish Lights every year is from its own source of income from light dues and commercial activity, including the chartering of its vessel and expenses incurred in its operations....

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: The Commissioners of Irish Lights is the authority involved in terms of the delegated function when the convention is ratified.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: I think we will bring a lot of know-how and experience in our role as an island nation. As a founding member of the new intergovernmental organisation, the ambition of the Commissioners of Irish Lights is to play an important role in the new structure. More generally, it is seeking a position on the council of IALA and they must also meet targets on the delivery of aids to navigation as...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: We want to get the convention ratified in the coming weeks. I hope we will get the committee to agree it today, then it will go back before the Dáil, and I hope it will be a case of formally ratifying it after that. The Department of Foreign Affairs will formally deposit our ratification instrument.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: It is the instrument for membership and formalising our ratification, which will be underpinned by Dáil and Oireachtas consent.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: I have outlined what it is. The membership costs €18,000.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: The function is delegated to the Commissioners of Irish Lights, so the day-to-day involvement is mainly with it and not necessarily the Department. The ratification is formally done by nations but the day-to-day function will be carried out by the Commissioners of Irish Lights.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: Will the committee's agreement be reported to the Dáil?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: Yes, that is not a problem.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Maritime Safety (23 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: Regarding this particular vessel, whilst it is lying inoperative in the port of Drogheda, it falls to the owner and to Drogheda Port Company, in whose area the vessel is located, to address any issues that arise. Any proposal or schedule to move the vessel are matters for the owner of the vessel to address. Before a vessel proceeds to sea it is required to undergo a Load Line survey. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (23 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: My Department, through the National Air Transportation Facilitation Committee (NATFaC) have convened a Summer 2023 Readiness Subgroup, which is meeting regularly to discuss preparations for what is expected to be a very busy summer season for air travel. Membership of the subgroup includes air carriers, airport operators, air navigation service providers, ground handlers and immigration...

Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the terms of the Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation, done at Paris on 27th January, 2021, a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 14th November, 2022.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: I fully respect the right of any party to use its parliamentary time in whatever way it sees fit but it is really disappointing to see that the Labour Party has decided to fall back on the cheap theatre of a no confidence motion which it knows will fail.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Jack Chambers: This has precipitated a Government motion of confidence, as it knows it must. Where once they were constructive in their opposition, they have instead fallen to a type of panic politics, of chasing Sinn Féin seated to their left, and the Social Democrats seated to their right.