Mr. Conor Faughnan:

We are often approached by people who wish to use road safety legislation for other worthwhile purposes. It has been suggested that one should get penalty points when one smokes in a car where there are children. We did not agree with that because, while we had no problem with fining someone for smoking in a car, it was not appropriate to road safety legislation because it was not relevant to road safety. Somebody suggested that people should get penalty points for littering from a car. We resisted that, not because we support littering but because we believe that if something is not connected to road safety it does not belong in road safety legislation.

I am just guessing, but it may come about that we will have to put something in to allow the law to do what it is intended to do, which is to catch and prevent people from driving while impaired. We may have to put in a mechanism whereby micro or trace amounts which do not in any way cause impairment but which might prove illicit drug use can be set aside for this purpose.