Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 182: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the ship employed by Shell Ireland to lay the pipeline for the Corrib gas field is operating under a Panamanian flag of convenience and that it refuses to pay its staff the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32964/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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As Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources I have no statutory function in this matter. I understand that the payment of wages on foreign flagged ships is a matter for the flag state where the ship is registered and for the internal domestic laws of that country.