Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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186. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the discussions she has had with the Health and Safety Authority and the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government regarding progress made on the review under way on aspects of legislation relating to regulation of fairground equipment and funfairs and specific legislative provisions relating to fairground equipment. [7995/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Health and Safety Authority is the national statutory Body with responsibility for ensuring that the provisions on workplace health and safety in the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act are implemented so that those affected by work activity are protected from work-related injury and ill health. The 2005 Act places a range of duties on undertakings and individuals to ensure as far as is reasonably practicable the safety, health and welfare at work of employees.

I should point out that neither I nor the Health and Safety Authority have any statutory responsibility for ensuring the health and safety of users of fairground equipment and funfairs nor any role in the regulation of public safety where the operation of fairground equipment, used by members of the public, is concerned.

I am not involved in, or leading on, any review of legislation relating to the regulation of fairground equipment and funfairs or any other specific legislative provisions relating to fairground equipment

I am aware that officials of the Health and Safety Authority, and of my Department, met with officials of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in May 2017. At this meeting the Health and Safety Authority outlined its role and responsibilities arising from the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005.

I should point out that the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government currently has responsibility for the licensing of funfairs and fairground equipment. In this regard my colleague the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government would be best placed to provide an update on the matter.