Mr. Padraig Cribben:

Anyone over the limit is one too many but there are appropriate penalties for those between 20 mg and 50 mg, between 50 mg and 80 mg, and 80 mg and above. What we are saying is that the penalties are there and they are appropriate.

I return to Deputy Fitzpatrick's reference to three pints. What I said on that radio programme on which Deputy Fitzpatrick and I were on last week was that the medical evidence is that if a person drinks X number of pints, it will go through his or her system at roughly a rate of one pint every two hours. Deputy Fitzpatrick said on that radio programme was that if someone has two or three pints on a Thursday night, they should not drive until Saturday. No medical people are saying that. No one other than Deputy Fitzpatrick is saying that. What I said was that the evidence suggests that alcohol will be gone from his or her system by the following morning, provided he or she has not been drinking until 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. If someone drinks those two or three pints by 11 p.m., the medical evidence is that it is gone through his or her system by 8 a.m. the following morning. I made a reasonable point that it should not be wrong to drive the following morning.