Mr. Kevin Doyle:

Regarding section 6, the advice we got from the Attorney General's office is that the intention of the law is clear. This is the hit-and-run situation. The Director of Public Prosecutions is continuing to take prosecutions under this legislation successfully. It is an error in the legislation but the intention is clear, so the advice was to clear it up if we can. This legislation, subject to the views of the committee, is almost complete. It is a short Bill and we hope to get it drafted quite quickly and to try to get it enacted before the summer recess. A road traffic Bill is going through at present, but that is much further away. It certainly will not be completed before the summer recess and it will be later in the year before it is enacted. We are taking this opportunity to correct this provision.