Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes, certainly. Much of what Deputy Healy-Rae says is right of course. I agree. There is speeding on the roads; he is right. There are holes and dangerous black spots; he is right but there is also alcohol on the roads. Alcohol is dangerous. It impairs. That is not an opinion. That is a scientifically proven fact. I accept what he says about speed, about there being dangers on our roads, about mobile telephones and all those other things but there is alcohol too. Deputy Healy-Rae's blind spot is he does not accept that alcohol of any sort impairs driving. That is a fact. Were he to recognise that, we would be a long way nearer a solution to the problem. This is not an attack on rural Ireland.