Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The 2008 to 2012 analysis shows that the 51 mg to 80 mg cohort is responsible for 5.6% of the analysed fatalities. If one also subtracts the 20 mg to 50 mg bracket one is still looking at more than 80% of fatalities caused by other drink drivers. Would it not be far more productive in terms of saving lives to focus on the 80%, the vast majority? That is within the context of drink driving alone. If we look at the overall road deaths we are looking at a far lower percentage in terms of deaths caused by drivers between 50 mg and 80 mg. In no way do I say that any one life is less important than another. Every one road fatality or serious injury is one too many. I have said that here repeatedly, but would we not reap greater rewards from targeting the far higher percentages of deaths caused as a result of higher drink driving levels? I do not hear Ms Murdock shouting from the rooftops that we do not have enough people in the traffic corps.