Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is a simple amendment. Currently, the person responsible must put the port in which the ship is registered underneath the name of the vessel on the stern. Now that we are going to require jet skis and other things to be licensed, we have no wish to prescribe that it must be written on the stern. This is because it is not necessarily clear where the stern of a jet ski is, for example. The amendment requires that the port of registration be indicated on the ship, but it does not necessarily have to be on the stern.