Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he proposes to cooperate with the request from the Northern Ireland Coroner (details supplied) to reinvestigate the sinking of the FV Strath Marie off Inishowen Head, County Donegal, on 14 March 2008 which resulted in the deaths of two brothers, Daniel and Francis McDaid. [15102/13]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Under Section 8 of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act 2000, the Marine Casualty Investigation Board is established as being independent of the Minister in the performance of its functions and, in general, is independent of any other person or body whose interests could conflict with the functions of the Board.

Consequently, the issue raised by the Deputy regarding the Board attending an inquest in relation to a casualty investigation is a matter for the Board itself and it would be wholly inappropriate for me to comment on the matter.