Seanad debates

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Merchant Shipping Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages

 

1:00 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Fine Gael)

That is fair enough. Under section 27(3)(f), the capacity is there for the Minister of the day to consider any other matters he thinks are appropriate in the circumstances, yet the same capacity is not in place in the earlier part of the Bill. I take the Minister's point that the list may be exhaustive, but given that we are continuously learning about how we can deal with matters like safety, having a degree of additional autonomy on the requirements would be a good idea. That said, I will not press this as I do not want to slow things down.

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