Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 2:

In page 6, lines 22 and 23, to delete “for” in line 22 down to and including line 23 and substitute the following: “being used in connection with the operations including activities servicing the operations of the installation at the time;”

This amendment is a slight expansion of some of what was talked about in terms of the installations. It relates to jurisdiction in respect of installations. As I said on Second Stage, this Bill was drafted at a point in time when certain kinds of installations were envisaged, largely to do with oil and gas exploration and so forth. I wanted to make sure that we are not constraining ourselves to the installation in terms of crimes being committed or laws being broken but that we would have a wider remit in the context of being used "in connection" with the operations, including activities servicing the operations of the installation. We need to apply the rule of law to installations but I am also trying to ensure that we capture, for example, a suite of service vehicles or activities that happen in relation, but not necessarily in direct proximity, to the installation but which are part of the installation's operations. I am trying to ensure we have an appropriately wide and functional remit. It should not be the case that a service ship that is related to an installation but happens to be outside a certain distance falls out of the appropriate rule of law. I ask the Minister of State to clarify the situation in regard to that issue.