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

When one speaks to people in terms of overall fatalities, speed is the ultimate killer here.

We do not seem to be tackling that with a similar zero-tolerance approach, even though it is a bigger killer. That is the point I am making. I am not condoning one over the other or saying one is less important in terms of the lives lost, I am just asking if the Minister's approach should not be to look at the biggest killer on our roads and tackle that? That does not seem to have been examined.

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