Amendment No. 2 seeks to amend section 46(3) to ensure offshore vessels and IP rules shall include requirements the Minister considers necessary to implement the provisions of Chapter XV of the SOLAS Convention and the IP code. Either the SOLAS Convention does not apply, in which case saying we will be consistent with it should not be a problem and we will be fine because the convention has nothing to say about service vessels, we can be consistent with the SOLAS Convention and it will not have an impact, or it does apply, in which case we are saying it may not be practical to implement the provisions of the SOLAS Convention.
We are explicitly saying we should look at Chapter XV of the SOLAS Convention, a new chapter designed to update the SOLAS Convention to address the new realities, address the new role and the role of service vessels and other vessels and be consistent with that.
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Tellers: Tá, Senators Alice-Mary Higgins and Frances Black; Níl, Senators Paul Daly and Cathal Byrne.
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