Seanad debates

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Merchant Shipping Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages

 

1:00 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal 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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