Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 257: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rules relating to exposure to visual display units for workers which prevail in Ireland; if these differ from the standards generally applying in the EU; and the plans he has to revise those standards or to harmonise standards across the EU. [33395/05]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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The protection of workers in the use of visual display units is covered by Part VII, Regulations 29 to 32 and the Tenth and Eleventh Schedules to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 1993, SI 44 of 1993, relating to display screen equipment.

Those provisions transpose into Irish law Council Directive 90/270/EEC of 29 May 1990 on the minimum safety and health requirements for work with display screen equipment. Thus, the standards that apply in Ireland relating to work with visual display units are the same as those throughout the EU. There are no plans to revise the regulations in so far as VDUs are concerned.

Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, the Health and Safety Authority is the State body charged with overall responsibility for administration, enforcement and promotion of workplace safety and health.