Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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520. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 743 of 10 October 2017, if the same legislation applies to activity parks such as bike parks and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48076/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I refer to the reply to Question No. 743 of 10 October 2017, which set out the position in relation to Section 239 of the Planning and Development Act 2000. This Section places a statutory duty on organisers of funfairs and owners of fairground equipment to take such care as is reasonable for ensuring that persons at a funfair do not suffer injury or damage by reason of dangers arising from the funfair or associated activities.

For the purposes of Section 239 of the Act, "funfair” means an entertainment where fairground equipment is used, while ‘‘fairground equipment’’ includes any fairground ride or any similar equipment which is designed to be in motion for entertainment purposes with members of the public on or inside it, any equipment which is designed to be used by members of the public for entertainment purposes either as a slide or for bouncing upon, and any swings, dodgems and other equipment which is designed to be in motion wholly or partly under the control of, or to be put in motion by, a member of the public or any equipment which may be prescribed, in the interests of public safety. This legislation does not prescribe activity parks such as bike parks as falling within its definition.