Sean Barrett (Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is a mixture of despair and cynicism as a result of a driving offence case being dropped because the person had not been informed in the Irish language, even though one might not be an Irish speaker. We must tighten the law because as has been said earlier one of the major sources of income for the Irish legal profession is looking at the rights of people to behave in that way, ignoring the rights of 160 or 180 people who have been killed and thousands injured. It is a very strange view of human rights, but it seems to be a view in the Irish legal profession. We must tackle it with stricter laws. I will certainly support any such legislation to deal with it in the Seanad.

On the question of road design, some of the ramps to the M50 have speed limits as low as 30 km/h which then join a stream of traffic with a speed limit of 120 km/h. Where one joins the M50 from the M4, one is travelling uphill, so trying to increase speed from 30 km/h to join a traffic stream doing up to 120 km/h is a safety hazard. I think that presents significant problems. Does the RSA have ideas on what road engineers will do?