Written answers
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
Legislative Measures
Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the Road Traffic Measures Bill 2023; and when this Bill will progress to the next stage. [6598/24]
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Road Traffic Bill 2024 (previously titled the Road Traffic Measures Bill 2023) was approved by Cabinet for drafting last October. The Bill was approved for publication in late December subject to a number of minor technical corrections, which have subsequently been remedied. It was published on 25 January 2024.
The Bill seeks to:
- Ensure that drivers will receive multiple sets of penalty points where two or more offences are committed on the same occasion
- Introduce mandatory drug testing at the scene of serious collisions on the same basis as existing requirements around alcohol testing
- Introduce safer default speed limits as recommended by the Speed Limit Review.
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