John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the German equivalent of the Marine Survey Office was in breach of European Union maritime safety regulations when it issued ongoing valid sailing permits for a former German beam trawler (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13085/22]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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I have sympathy for the situation in which the owner of the MFV Mary Kate finds himself. However, I wish to advise that any questions regarding European maritime safety regulations and another European Member State would be a matter for the European Commission to consider.