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Boatstachtsmarinas.com carry the following press release
"Dermot Ahern T.D., Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, has announced a major new safety drive by making the wearing of lifejackets compulsory on board any boat of seven metres or less.
In addition, the Minister ruled a lifejacket or personal flotation devices must be carried on every vessel regardless of size.
The water safety measures are contained in new draft regulations published today which will become law in two weeks time following a consultation period.
Minister Ahern said: “We have endured too many tragedies at sea and on our waterways. I fully appreciate that people have to take responsibility for their own safety but the time has come, I believe, to make the wearing of lifejackets compulsory on most of our vessels.
“These regulations are based on the overwhelming call from the public for a statutory requirement for the wearing of lifejackets in response to a consultation paper on the wearing of life jackets and personal floatation devices on small watercraft which was published by the Maritime Safety Directorate of my Department last year”.
The main provisions of the draft regulations provide that : A lifejacket/ personal floatation device is carried on board for each person (irrespective of the size of craft); Everyone on board a craft less than 7.0 metres (23 feet) in length must wear a lifejacket/ personal floatation device; Every child less than 16 years of age must wear a lifejacket/ personal floatation device at all times while on deck when the craft is underway; Controls of consumption of alcohol or drugs on board non-mechanically propelled pleasure craft are addressed."
While I make all of my crews start out with a lifejacket on I'm still not sure about legal compullsion.
Is there really "(an) overwhelming call from the public for a statutory requirement for the wearing of lifejackets" in Ireland? Was the consultancy sample a large one?
Have the Irish boating community really suffered many fatalities that this sort of regulation will address?
I'm calling the idea that "the Minister ruled a lifejacket or personal flotation devices must be carried on every vessel regardless of size" a typo. Otherwise the idea that a crew of 12 are sharing the one device is an interesting one.
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"Dermot Ahern T.D., Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, has announced a major new safety drive by making the wearing of lifejackets compulsory on board any boat of seven metres or less.
In addition, the Minister ruled a lifejacket or personal flotation devices must be carried on every vessel regardless of size.
The water safety measures are contained in new draft regulations published today which will become law in two weeks time following a consultation period.
Minister Ahern said: “We have endured too many tragedies at sea and on our waterways. I fully appreciate that people have to take responsibility for their own safety but the time has come, I believe, to make the wearing of lifejackets compulsory on most of our vessels.
“These regulations are based on the overwhelming call from the public for a statutory requirement for the wearing of lifejackets in response to a consultation paper on the wearing of life jackets and personal floatation devices on small watercraft which was published by the Maritime Safety Directorate of my Department last year”.
The main provisions of the draft regulations provide that : A lifejacket/ personal floatation device is carried on board for each person (irrespective of the size of craft); Everyone on board a craft less than 7.0 metres (23 feet) in length must wear a lifejacket/ personal floatation device; Every child less than 16 years of age must wear a lifejacket/ personal floatation device at all times while on deck when the craft is underway; Controls of consumption of alcohol or drugs on board non-mechanically propelled pleasure craft are addressed."
While I make all of my crews start out with a lifejacket on I'm still not sure about legal compullsion.
Is there really "(an) overwhelming call from the public for a statutory requirement for the wearing of lifejackets" in Ireland? Was the consultancy sample a large one?
Have the Irish boating community really suffered many fatalities that this sort of regulation will address?
I'm calling the idea that "the Minister ruled a lifejacket or personal flotation devices must be carried on every vessel regardless of size" a typo. Otherwise the idea that a crew of 12 are sharing the one device is an interesting one.
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