Ruairí Quinn
Question:95 Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concern within the personnel of the emergency services and their families at the lack of a comprehensive and adequate set of regulations obliging the owners and users of pleasure craft to ensure that their craft are fully and comprehensively equipped with emergency provisions such as flares, second engines, radar and other safety devices so as to ensure that in the event of such pleasure craft encountering difficulties the rescue associated with the users of that craft do not in turn result in putting the personnel of our emergency services in serious danger resulting either in injury or even loss of life; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17795/00]