Michael Ring
Ceist:57 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources when the 1998 Protocol on Safety of Life at Sea will be signed. [26566/98]
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57 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources when the 1998 Protocol on Safety of Life at Sea will be signed. [26566/98]
71 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for the Marine and Natural Resources when the 1998 Protocol on Safety of Life at Sea will be signed. [26567/98]
I propose to take Questions Nos. 57 and 71 together as these are identical.
I presume the issue to which the Deputies refer is the implementation, in Irish law, of the provisions of the 1988 Protocol relating to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974.
My Department has prepared a draft statutory instrument to give full effect to the provisions of the 1988 Protocol. These draft regulations are currently being settled in the Attorney General's Office, and I intend to introduce them once settlement has been completed by that office.