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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/10/
5 Jul 2001 -
Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Second Stage.
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Committee Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-06-19/18/
19 Jun 2001 -
Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Second Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-17/8/
17 May 2001 -
Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Second Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/11/
5 Jul 2001 -
Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Committee and Remaining Stages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-06-19/19/
19 Jun 2001 -
Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Referral to Select Committee.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-07-04/18/
4 Jul 2001 -
Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Report and Final Stages.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/20/
16 May 2001 -
. - Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/22/
16 May 2001 -
. - Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Second Stage (Resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/19/
16 May 2001 -
. - Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000: Order for Second Stage.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-10-17/45/
17 Oct 2000 -
Fahey): The Government recently approved on 30 May 2000, the general scheme of the Adventure Activities...Standards Authority Bill, 2000 and the legislation is currently being drafted....establishment of an independent adventure activities standards authority; mandatory registration of...adventure centres and providers with the authority for specified activities; mandatory codes of safe...of the adventure activities standards authority shortly thereafter.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-11-23/25/
23 Nov 2000 -
Fahey The heads of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000 were approved by Government...on 30 May 2000....standards authority; mandatory registration of adventure centres and providers with the authority for...specified activities; mandatory codes of safe operating practice for specified adventure activities;...to order cessation of the provision of any or all adventure activities in the case of failure to observe
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-26/2/
26 Jun 2001 -
Chairman The Select Committee is adjourned until 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 27 June when we will consider the Adventure...Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/19/
16 May 2001 -
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body to be known as An tÚdarás um Chaighdeáin...do Ghníomhaíochtaí Eachtraíochta or, in the English language, the Adventure Activities Standards Authority...to regulate adventure activities and to define its functions and to provide for related matters.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/10/
5 Jul 2001 -
establish an independent standards authority to regulate the safety of adventure activity centres and...Specifically, it will allow for the establishment of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority; mandatory...The function of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority will be to promote, encourage, foster, facilitate...I am confident the provisions of this Bill and the establishment of the Adventure Activities Standards...The establishment of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority is a key and innovative step, designed
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-10-05/74/
5 Oct 2000 -
Fahey) The Government approved on 30 May 2000 the general scheme of The Adventure Activities Standards...Authority Bill, 2000, and the legislation is currently being drafted.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/20/
16 May 2001 -
The key provision of the Bill is the establishment of an independent standards authority to regulate...Specifically it will allow for the establishment of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority; mandatory...First and foremost, the Bill provides for the establishment of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority...The function of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority will be to promote, encourage, foster, facilitate...The Adventure Activities Standards Authority will have the usual powers and duties regarding recruitment
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-17/8/
17 May 2001 -
I favour the principle behind the introduction of the Adventure Activities Standard Authority and I am...authority to be established....Members are aware of the activities that have been listed, which include a number of water adventure...the Bill....We cannot put in place an Adventure Activities Standard Authority without taking equine sports into account
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-06-27/76/
27 Jun 2001 -
Chairman The Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has completed its consideration of the Adventure...Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000, and has made amendments thereto.
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
with Deputy Dukes that the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, 1997, should apply to the Adventure...Activities Standards Authority....regulations and not by a provision contained in the Bill....I assure the Deputy that I do not have any difficulty in principle with the Adventure Activities Standards...in the appropriate regulations made under these Acts as soon as the authority is established.
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/10/
27 Jun 2001 -
will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has considered the Adventure...Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000, and has made amendments thereto.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-11-23/3/
23 Nov 2004 -
The Taoiseach The two Bills were the Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill 2000 and the Official...Languages (Equality) Bill 2002....These were the only Bills in the past five years that were drafted outside the Office of the Parliamentary
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-06-14/64/
14 Jun 2000 -
The Government recently approved the general scheme of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill..., 2000, and the legislation is currently being drafted.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-06-19/14/
19 Jun 2001 -
Is the proposal for dealing with No. 54, the conclusion of Second Stage of the Adventure Activities Standards...Authority Bill, 2000, agreed to?...Is the proposal for dealing with No. 55, Report and Final Stages of the Company Law Enforcement Bill,...2000, agreed to?
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
that investigations or inquiries into accidents which occur in the workplace or involve marine related activities...at adventure centres can be undertaken only by the authority where the consent of the Minister for the...and Safety Authority, or the Marine Casualty Investigation Board....Where it is agreed that the Adventure Activities Standards Authority can play a role in such investigations..., that authority will be empowered to do so.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-06-19/18/
19 Jun 2001 -
Deenihan The Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000, addresses serious issues regarding...of this Bill, the State should help them....While there is scope for the authority to expand the list of prescribed activities, that list should...This is a potentially high risk water based activity which is practised in most multi-activity adventure...outlined in the Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-02-20/99/
20 Feb 2002 -
Following that publication my Department introduced the Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill..., 2000....This Bill was passed through both houses of the Oireachtas and signed into law by the President on 16
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
Byrne The focus of the interdepartmental working group was to examine how safe adventure activities...The committee will be aware where a school contacts an adventure centre to provide adventure activities...to its pupils, the provision of such activities will be covered by the statutory safeguards in the Bill...I assure the committee I will ask the authority, which will include a representative of the Department...as a matter of the utmost priority how to ensure school children have access to the highest safety standards
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-07-04/3/
4 Jul 2001 -
dealing with No. a 1, the amendment from the Seanad in relation to the Vocational Education (Amendment) Bill..., 2000, agreed to?...Is the proposal for dealing with No. 54, Report and Final Stages of the Adventure Activities Standards...Authority Bill, 2000, agreed to?...Is the proposal for dealing with No. 55, Report and Final Stages of the Local Government Bill, 2000,
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/11/
5 Jul 2001 -
Byrne The focus of the interdepartmental working group was to examine how safe adventure activities...The House will be aware that where a school contacts an adventure centre to provide adventure activities...to its pupils, the provision of such activities will be covered by the statutory safeguards in the Bill...I will ask the authority, which will include a representative of the Department of Education and Science...as a matter of the utmost priority how to ensure school children have access to the highest safety standards
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/22/
16 May 2001 -
to promote and enhance the safety of all people who engage in adventure activities in adventure centres...I also welcome the establishment of the independent standards authority to regulate the safety of adventure...with the authority for specified activities; for the mandatory codes of safe operating practice for...It will also give powers to the authority to order cessation of the provision of any, or all, adventure...Given that the main provisions in the Bill provide for the standards authority, which will be made up
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
A number of Deputies referred on Second Stage to the definitions of adventure activities included in...the Bill and questioned the absence of certain other activities from these definitions....The definitions in the Bill reflect only those activities which are widely provided in activity centres..."adventure activities" and could, in time, be included under the legislation....However, the difficulty is that many of these activities do not have recognised standards.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-06-14/64/
14 Jun 2000 -
The general scheme of the Bill follows the principal recommendations of an interdepartmental working...establishment of an independent adventure activities standards authority; mandatory registration of...adventure centres and providers with the authority for specified activities; mandatory codes of safe...operating practice for specified adventure activities; implementation of a regulatory scheme, involving...order cessation of the provision of any or all adventure activities in the case of failure to observe
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-10-05/74/
5 Oct 2000 -
The general scheme of the Bill follows the principal recommendations of an interdepartmental working...establishment of an independent adventure activities standards authority, mandatory registration of...adventure centres and providers with the authority for specified activities, mandatory codes of safe...operating practice for specified adventure activities, implementation of a regulatory scheme, involving...cessation of the provision of any or all adventure activities in the case of failure to observe safety
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-17/8/
17 May 2001 -
This Bill is specific in that it provides for the definition of adventure activities and provision to...It defines adventure activity operators and sets up the Adventure Activities Standards Authority....The Bill does not mention the adventure activity participant....The four nominees to the authority from the adventure activity operators are specified to include two...Section 8 outlines the definition of adventure activities and a total of 13 activities are listed.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-07-06/8/
6 Jul 2001 -
Éireann has passed the following: the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill...amendment; the Ministerial Parliamentary Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill..., 2001, without amendment; the Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000, without amendment...and the Human Rights Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2001, without amendment.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/22/
16 May 2001 -
important to have a regulatory authority that can establish and monitor standards across the country...Section 8 includes the 13 categories identified in the Bill as "adventure activities"....This activity should be included in the list of adventure activities and subject to the regulation and...The later sections deal with the establishment of the adventure activities standards authority....and regulate the safe operation of adventure activities."
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/2/
27 Jun 2001 -
This meeting has been scheduled to consider the Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/11/
5 Jul 2001 -
We are talking about adventure activities....We are establishing an authority to deal with standards for safety regulations and also provide funding...as laid out in the Bill....The other sector is not subject to those standards....It seems strange that the authority would operate only in this area regarding the non-commercial as well
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-17/8/
17 May 2001 -
Cecilia Keaveney I am glad to return to this Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill....function of the activities standards authority....This authority will oversee adventure activities in 13 activities....within these specified adventure activities to register with the authority and the authority will develop...It is noted in the Minister's speech that the Bill only covers those who provide adventure activities
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-06-14/64/
14 Jun 2000 -
I hope to be in a position to publish the Bill in the next few months and look forward to the establishment...of the adventure activities standards authority shortly thereafter.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-07-04/18/
4 Jul 2001 -
investigations or inquiries into accidents which occur in the workplace, or involving marine related activities...at adventure centres, can only be undertaken by the authority where the consent of the Minister for...and Safety Authority, or the Marine Casualty Investigation Board....However, where it is agreed that the Adventure Activities Standards Authority can play a role in such...investigations, the authority will be empowered to do so.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-10-05/74/
5 Oct 2000 -
I hope to be in a position to bring forward the publishing of the Bill to the current session and look...forward to the establishment of the adventure activities standards authority shortly thereafter.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-01/13/
1 May 2001 -
Coveney Will the Taoiseach confirm that the relevant Bill will be introduced before the summer recess...to ensure activity and adventure centres across the country are regulated?...The relevant Bill, the adventure activity standards authority Bill, was promised more than two years...Will the Taoiseach give us an update on the Bill and assure the House it will be in place before the
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-02-20/99/
20 Feb 2002 -
for the putting in place of a legislative framework to allow for: the establishment of an independent adventure...activities standards authority; mandatory registration of adventure centres and providers with the authority...for specified activities; mandatory codes of safe operating practice for specified adventure activities...scheme, involving inspection of centres and providers for adherence to safety codes; and powers for the authority...to order cessation of the provision of any or all adventure activities in the case of failure to observe
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/22/
16 May 2001 -
activities covered in the Bill....The initial list of adventure activities is quite comprehensive and the Bill clearly demands a mature...This Bill is not about being a killjoy but about ensuring people can enjoy adventure sporting activities...This is a very important Bill which allows for the establishment and funding of the adventure activities...standards authority.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-10-18/407/
18 Oct 2011 -
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (Deputy Leo Varadkar) The Adventure Activities Standards...Authority Act, 2001 made provision for the establishment by the Minister for Marine and Natural Resources...of an Adventure Activities Standards Authority....implications of the legislation and to consider what might now be the best approach to ensuring that safety standards...are maintained in the adventure sports sector.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-02-13/70/
13 Feb 2002 -
My Department has also, through the Adventure Activities Standards Authority Act, 2001, established a...clear and effective statutory framework to promote and enhance the safety of all persons who engage in adventure...activities at adventure centres in Ireland....The key provision of the Act is the establishment of an independent standards authority to regulate the...safety of adventure activity centres and providers.
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Debate: Select Committee On Communications, Marine And Natural Resources
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_communications_marine_and_natural_resources/2003-06-10/3/
10 Jun 2003 -
Browne The new Adventure Activities Standards Authority funding is provided under subhead C5....Once the authority is established, it will be mandatory for adventure centres and providers to register...with it for specified activities....It will operate mandatory codes of safe operation and practice for specified adventure activities and...have the power to order providers to cease these activities where they fail to observe the codes.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/10/
5 Jul 2001 -
This Bill establishes an independent standards authority to regulate the safety of adventure activity...in adventure activities and the regulation of such activities and centres....as providers of specific adventure activities....The Bill provides for the establishment of the standards authority with 15 members and an independent...these adventure activities?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/10/
5 Jul 2001 -
The authority will inspect the operation of standards only where there is the passage of money between...The vast majority of adventure activities do not take place on a commercial but on an ad hoc basis....They provide far more activities than other secondary schools, including adventure activities....There is hardly a VEC school that does not provide an adventure sports activity programme....One set of safety standards cannot be applied to the same type of activity simply because the resources
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-17/8/
17 May 2001 -
There is no point in pretending there is a uniform standard....Like many other speakers, on reading the Bill, the first thing that struck me was the list of adventure...The one area with which I am inclined to take issue is that the Bill covers only those adventure centres...The Bill provides an opportunity to increase standards across the board at a time when all aspects of...No doubt it is expensive to operate adventure activity centres – they do not come cheaply.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/11/
5 Jul 2001 -
with everything here today and the discussion dealt fairly comprehensively with all aspects of the Bill...Nevertheless, despite some of the deficiencies that have been pointed out in the Bill, I am sure that...when the new authority finds its feet, it will rectify anything that we may have overlooked....This legislation is a good attempt to improve public safety in all areas of adventure activity and if...the hours we have spent debating it today result in the saving of even one life in any adventure activity
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-17/8/
17 May 2001 -
If we attempt to look after all adventure activity, the definition of such activity needs to be more...I favour the establishment of a safety standards authority for activity centres, but I am concerned with...It is necessary that we should require adventure activity operators to register with an authority....activity, given that, after all, adventure activity is about adventure....for the promotion and encouragement of adventure activity.
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
press the amendment but it should be noted that the legislation does not provide for the setting of standards...for adventure activities that are provided other than for payment or reward....The legislation does not extend the provision of safety regulations or the setting of safety standards...to those specific activities....Will the Minister in his communications with the new authority ask it as a matter of priority to reflect
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-02-24/3/
24 Feb 2005 -
O’Shea On 16 July 2001, the Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill was passed into law.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-06-19/18/
19 Jun 2001 -
The voluntary inspection schemes operated by the centre standards board of the Association for Adventure...The establishment of the adventure activities standards authority is a key and innovative step designed...to lead to the safer environment for all persons involved in adventure activities that is desired....the authority up to date on particular risks or dangers in an adventure activity and allow it to amend...A number of Deputies referred to the definitions of adventure activities included in the Bill and questioned
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/10/
5 Jul 2001 -
However, the Bill has missed an opportunity to encompass all adventure activities within the proposed...Commercial activities must have standards if they are to survive in the business world....Some local authority members have considerable knowledge of seafaring and adventure activities because...the nature of politics at local level is an adventure activity in any event....very complex area involving 13 or 14 adventure activities.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-02-27/78/
27 Feb 2002 -
in accordance with the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act, 2000...I also intend to establish a new adventure activities standards authority under the Adventure Activities...Standards Authority Act, 2001.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-07-04/18/
4 Jul 2001 -
activities standards authority....They are involved in what might be called sector or activity associations that seek to lay down standards...We could regard the Bill and the establishment of the authority as largely a prudential measure....The Bill also contains a provision that envisages that the authority will be involved in the overall...The Health and Safety Authority is involved in a much wider range of activities than the proposed authority
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-05-17/18/
17 May 2000 -
first instance, the eight legislative proposals already announced relating to the funding of political activity..., both between and during elections [a Standards in Public Office Bill; the Registration of Lobbyist...(No. 2) Bill, 1999; the Electoral (Amendment) (Donations to Parties and Candidates) Bill, 2000; the Public...Representatives (Provision of Tax Clearance Certificates) Bill, 2000; three Prevention of Corruption...Bills and the Local Government Bill, 2000],
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Debate: Select Committee On Communications, Marine And Natural Resources
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_communications_marine_and_natural_resources/2003-06-10/3/
10 Jun 2003 -
Eamon Ryan On the Adventure Activities Standards Authority, is it an annual commitment?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-10-03/102/
3 Oct 2000 -
at Sea Permits Text to be submitted to Government in September for approval 16/5/00 October 2000...(Seanad) Adventure Activities (Safety) Bill To establish a regulatory regime for safety...of adventure activities, including the setting up of a statutory authority Preparation of text well...In agreement with Northern Ireland authorities, to provide for inland fisheries development function...Drafting of text proceeding 20/06/00 Early 2001 (Subject to consultation with Northern Ireland authorities
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/11/
5 Jul 2001 -
In my Second Stage speech, I referred to the fact that certain high-risk adventure activities are not...included in the Bill, despite the fact that there is no reason for this....The Minister of State said there are no acknowledged standards for the "sports" in my amendment, but...they are high-risk activities....The Minister of State said that the authority, when set up, will look at these sports, but years may
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
Bell I move amendment No. 15: In page 18, subsection (7), line 43, to delete "carry on an adventure...activity" and substitute "act as an adventure activities operator".
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/11/
5 Jul 2001 -
contribution I raised the question of section 14(2)( b ) which states that one of the functions of the new authority...facilities for the promotion, encouragement, fostering, facilitation and regulation of the safe promotion of adventure...activities....Will the new authority also have functions to administer grants in relation to non-commercial operations...involving schools, the community or voluntary adventure activities?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-02-27/80/
27 Feb 2002 -
The provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act, 2000, relating to marine...my Department will advance as a priority the necessary arrangements to allow the commencement of the Adventure...Activities Standards Authority Act, 2001, and the setting up of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-23/2/
23 May 2001 -
The Taoiseach I agree with Deputy Finucane that all Stages of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority...Bill should be passed before the summer recess and I ask for co-operation from all sides to allow this...The dormant accounts Bill has not yet been published....The Bill will be published this session but I do not know whether it will be taken.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/11/
5 Jul 2001 -
We all agree with the principle of the legislation, which is to provide a safe context in which adventure...activities....The integrity of the legislation is considerably undermined if it only covers adventure activities that...Is there any difficulty in registering all bodies whether they participate in adventure activities for...The Minister may by regulation make many changes under the legislation but many adventure activities
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-06-19/18/
19 Jun 2001 -
This Bill is most welcome and it is probably long overdue....With regard to the composition of the forum, local authorities should be represented on it and rescue...The list of adventure activities is wide-ranging and some of the hitherto less popular activities have...I am concerned about the exclusion of schools from the provision of adventure activities and I hope the...Minister of State will take into account the valuable role played by the rescue services and the local authorities
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/22/
16 May 2001 -
Finucane I welcome the Bill....I would like to pay tribute to the Association for Adventure Sports, AFAS, for the standards it sets...We have a great country and that is why these adventure centres will be improved under the Bill....the imposition of various charges, which is different to those operating under the Health and Safety Authority...and in these activities.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-17/8/
17 May 2001 -
They are called adventure activities because they take place in the wild away from artificial environments...There are 13 activities listed in the Bill – hill walking, orienteering, caving, dinghy sailing, kayaking...There must be standards in order that there can be fun, risk and adventure but also safety....and measures directed towards the safe operation of adventure activities....Many of the activities mentioned in the Bill and others which I am sure will be added to the list in
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/22/
16 May 2001 -
Killeen I too welcome this Bill for the establishment of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority...In the event that an operation does not meet the standards, the authority will have the power to shut...The Association for Adventure Activities and the Irish Sailing Association had done great work in setting...If, as a result of this legislation, we raise the standards in the area of adventure sports we will see...Perhaps I should refer to other adventure activities not suitable to be covered by this legislation but
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-10-20/35/
20 Oct 1999 -
the interdepartmental working group which I set up to carry out a review of the safety regulation in adventure-activity...activities, on a commercial basis, which is not in accordance with accepted safety practices and which...activities in Ireland and recommended the establishment of a new statutory authority to manage the regulatory...The aim of the new authority should be to encourage high safety standards, particularly in that part...the sector which has not participated in the existing voluntary approval schemes run by the Centre Standards
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
The Bill sets out to apply the various regulations that are being proposed to operators who provide services...I do not know whether we should make that specification because there are adventure activities that are...some length in the report of the interdepartmental working group, A Review of the Safety Regulation of Adventure...Activity Centres in Ireland....to various adventure centres and there is no payment for the services provided other than for reward
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/22/
16 May 2001 -
The Minister stated that its key purpose is the establishment of an independent adventure activity standard...The function of the adventure activity standard authority will be to promote, facilitate and regulate...the safety operations of adventure activities....The Bill defines all the adventure sports and some are dangerous....Under the Bill, adventure activity operators must register with the authorities.
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
not convinced that it is appropriate to impose a charge for the provision of these services by the authority...We do not know what the costs will be as they are not stipulated in the Bill....However, £300,000 per year could be quite an amount of money for adventure sports centres to collect...my recollection, it reported that operators expressed the view that if they had to pay fees to the authority...The Bill deals with adventure activities all of which involve an element of risk.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/20/
16 May 2001 -
There is a great deal more to the activities of adventure centres than first meets the eye....activity providers for the services set out in the Bill....People who already keep good safety and quality standards without an authority to oblige them should...The organisations involved in providing adventure activities want the activity of raft building to be...promotion, encouragement, fostering and facilitation of adventure activities.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/11/
5 Jul 2001 -
Byrne We should not lose sight of the fact that the Bill concerns safety....Moneys will only be disbursed to help provide greater safety for all engaged in adventure activities.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2000-10-11/11/
11 Oct 2000 -
Section 1 updates the definition of "harbour authority" in the 1996 Act, for enforcement and related...purposes simply to take account of later legislation, including the recent Harbours Act, 2000....Section 5 is a standard provision for the short title for the Bill when enacted and for its construction
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-17/3/
17 May 2001 -
shall be as follows: No. 23 a , motion re membership of committees; No. 7, Horse and Greyhound Racing Bill..., 2001 – Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. 6, Adventure Activities Standards Authority...Bill, 2000 – Second Stage (resumed).
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-16/20/
16 May 2001 -
Bell I am pleased to have this opportunity to contribute to the Adventure Activities Standards Authority...Bill, 2000....Why are certain activities such as fishing excluded from the Bill?...Will a planning application for permission to operate certain activities require local authorities to...I am satisfied with the section in the Bill which allows for the adding of activities.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-07-04/18/
4 Jul 2001 -
Bell I move amendment No. 9: In page 18, line 43, to delete "carry on an adventure activity" and substitute..."act as an adventure activities operator"....Having had further discussion on this, it is my opinion that, in this regard, the Bill has a very serious...I appeal to the Minister of State to listen to what I have said about this very serious flaw in the Bill...Otherwise, he may be left with a Bill containing a very serious legal flaw.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2011-06-23/13/
23 Jun 2011 -
following: " No. 1 of 2001 Aviation Regulation Act 2001 Section 25 No. 34 of 2001 Adventure...Activities Standards Authority Act 2001 Section 29 ".
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-03-10/3/
10 Mar 2005 -
fortnight ago I raised with the Tánaiste the matter of the establishment day for the implementation of the adventure...activities standards authority.
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Debate: Select Committee On Communications, Marine And Natural Resources
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_communications_marine_and_natural_resources/2005-06-07/10/
7 Jun 2005 -
.2, I have a question that relates to our deliberations this morning concerning the Maritime Safety Bill...Approximately three or four years ago, we passed a Bill establishing the Adventure Activities Standards...Authority....Has the authority been established?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-04-19/130/
19 Apr 2000 -
activities....report on 4 June 1999 with a number of recommendations, including the establishment of a statutory authority...proposed legislation, the introduction of which is part of the Government's legislative programme for 2000...1999 to enhance and extend the Centre Standards Board – CSB – scheme of inspection of providers' facilities...and to consult with a view to drawing up a blueprint for an inspection scheme which the new statutory authority
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-07-04/18/
4 Jul 2001 -
for Occupational Safety and Health, national governing bodies for adventure activities, a representative...of the staff of adventure activities operators and persons having such knowledge, skills or experience...would so misbehave themselves as to merit dismissal, then he should provide for that in the Bill....Under it the Minister can at any time dismiss the chairperson and any member of the authority....Under another provision in the Bill the Minister could also fire the director.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/10/
5 Jul 2001 -
Other Senators have rehearsed the functions and purpose of the Bill so I do not intend to go into that...legislation is desirable in that it provides the statutory umbrella under which certain commercial adventure...activities will be covered....that proper safety regulations are in operation and that properly trained people conduct courses and activities...Questions exist in relation to the functions of the new independent standards authority and how it will
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-06-19/14/
19 Jun 2001 -
The Taoiseach It is proposed to take No. 54, Adventure Activities Standards Authority Bill, 2000 –...Second Stage (resumed) and No. 55, Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000 – Order for Report and Report and
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
Byrne I understand why the Deputy puts forward these suggestions as regards membership of the new authority...Since publication of the Bill my Department has received a number of comments from within the sector...as to the membership of the authority....that will match standards anywhere else in the world....working group and endorsed by the Association for Adventure Sports in the blueprint document it produced
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-03-30/14/
30 Mar 1999 -
In introducing this Bill, I am conforming to the necessity for a Bill for water-based activity centres...This Bill proposes a new licensing and policing system under the aegis of the Health and Safety Authority...Currently, the Association for Adventure Sports, AFAS, does a good job in setting standards for adventure...I am not saying that under this Bill the Association for Adventure Sports standards should be abolished...In 1995 the British Government introduced a Bill to regulate activity centres.
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Debate: Select Committee On Agriculture, Food And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_agriculture_food_and_the_marine/2001-06-27/3/
27 Jun 2001 -
The section defines "adventure activity operators" and makes provision for amendments to the definition...later by way of ministerial order in consultation with the authority.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/10/
5 Jul 2001 -
The purpose of the Bill is to put safety first....hope as a consequence there will be greater awareness of the necessity for safety measures in all the activities...The Bill came about as a result of an accident at sea....Adventure sports, by their nature, involve risk and that risk is the attraction....As Senators said, we are all becoming more health conscious and want to engage in these activities.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2001-05-23/2/
23 May 2001 -
Finucane I welcome the decision to take Second Stage of the Adventure Activities Standards Authority...Bill....However, I encourage the Taoiseach to ensure that the Bill passes all Stages before the summer recess
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Debate: Committee Of Public Accounts
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/committee_of_public_accounts/2004-10-14/4/
14 Oct 2004 -
What was the cause of the delay with the Adventure Activities Standards Authority in particular?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-02-20/99/
20 Feb 2002 -
It will also take over the safety functions in relation to pleasure craft and adventure activities at...It is my intention that work will now be progressed under the directorate to have the new adventure activities...standards authority established as quickly as possible.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-03-31/29/
31 Mar 1999 -
Belton I compliment Deputy Finucane on bringing forward this important Bill....The Bill can only help to further this aim...., proper safety standards are both desirable and necessary....to a voluntary code of safety standards devised by the Association for Adventure Sports....Resources in co-operation with the Health and Safety Authority.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-06-04/4/
4 Jun 1998 -
Finucane I am pleased with the Minister's statement that there will be no dilution of safety standards...because of the exemptions to the Bill....The area of adventure centres must be looked at because responsibility for them is very diluted....responsibility, nor does the Minister, even though many of them are concerned with exclusively marine related activities...Although it does excellent work and tries to issue safety standards, etc., there is no underpinning legislation
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-05/11/
5 Jul 2001 -
Such charges are at the root of the problem with this Bill....will result from this legislation whereby one group of operators will be outside the ambit of the Bill...The activities involved are fringe pursuits and do not have significant resources....accepted, schools and vocational education committees which operate on a shoestring regarding outdoor and adventure...activities would also be funded by the Government.
