Seanad debates
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Merchant Shipping Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages
1:00 pm
Paschal Donohoe (Fine Gael)
The part of the Minister's response that interested me was about the other legislation that could kick in if some terrible incident was to take place. I am trying to figure out whether the consistency of fining is appropriate when we are dealing with something like nuclear carriage rules. A part of the Bill states that if a person does not have a safe manning document available, the fines to be faced are €5,000 or €100,000. It appears the offence of not complying with the nuclear carriage rules is on an entirely different level from that of not having a manning document available for a vessel. If the Minister is stating other legislation will create additional penalties, perhaps that might deal with the issue.
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