Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport

9:00 am

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It would be important to have those figures.

The 20 mg level was introduced for specified drivers, namely, learner, novice and professional drivers. The Minister made the point that the number of young drivers being detected for drink driving is rising, but a higher proportion of young drivers are learner and novice drivers and many male drivers, for example, tradesman, would be professional drivers, who would fit into the 17 to 24, 25 to 34, and 35 to 44 age categories. Those figures make up a disproportionately large number of the drink driving cases that are coming before the courts or being detected. Does the Minister believe that the lower blood alcohol level requirement is having an impact and resulting in a different proportion in terms of the overall number of drink drivers, as it is a far lower limit?

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