Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied). [50260/21]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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First of all, I wish to acknowledge what a tragedy the Whiddy Island disaster was and to express my deepest sympathies to those who died and the families they left behind.  As the Deputy is aware the report of the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Whiddy Disaster considered the role of the terminal operator, ship operator and several Government Departments and Authorities as well as the role of other States. There was no finding of any failings in the maritime transport safety regulatory regime for the ship from an Irish aspect.