Mr. Mick Quinlivan:

I have 31 years' experience on the front line dealing with traffic, traffic accidents and road traffic offences. When one goes to the scene of an accident one's first concern is for people who are injured and we try to look after them. The culprit, the perpetrator, the person who is in the wrong in the accident, however, could be your brother, my brother or anybody's brother here. It could be somebody who has worked a double shift and fallen asleep on the way home. There are so many tragic stories. These people are not necessarily criminals. They are very unfortunate and should not really be treated as criminals. There are serial offenders who have to be dealt with, however, and I would not want to give any of them a get-out-of-jail-free card because I know what the consequences of this type of driving are, having seen it at first hand. We have to have a level-headed approach to this. It is not about revenge but about making everybody safer and better at driving.