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
Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source
The Road Safety Authority and I are working together extremely effectively on this Bill. The authority has been very supportive of the Bill. Members of the committee will have received a letter from them supporting this Bill and the measures therein. It is evidence-based. The chief executive of the Road Safety Authority supports this Bill and has written to the committee. The chairman of the RSA, to whom the Deputy referred, is also totally supportive of this Bill. We are working in exactly the same direction on the Bill, so there is no conflict there at all.
Although we have not had any real clash about it, I think we probably have a difference of opinion about how the board should be constituted.
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