Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy is right in principle. I believe it is fine in principle. The reason I am reluctant to accept it now is that I wish to examine it more closely to see what the implications are for other areas of legislation for drink driving and whether it would undermine those offences in any way. We will probably need serious legal advice on it. The other issue is that the regulations to which the amendment refers are the road traffic regulations 1999.

They are not the correct regulations. The 1999 regulations were replaced in 2006.