264 Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only about one quarter of the world’s fleet of 85,000 commercial ships have registration and flagging arrangements that are inconsistent with article 91 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, yet a disproportionate one half of all ships trading into Irish sea ports and almost all lo-lo container vessels, operate outside the UNCLOS requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10371/08]

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264 Deputy Joanna Tuffy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that only about one quarter of the world’s fleet of 85,000 commercial ships have registration and flagging arrangements that are inconsistent with article 91 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, yet a disproportionate one half of all ships trading into Irish sea ports and almost all lo-lo container vessels, operate outside the UNCLOS requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10371/08]

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