Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Based on the authority's own figures, the logic of the argument is that people are being killed by drivers who register between 51 mg and 80 mg but according to the figures from 2008 and 2012, surely what the RSA should be advocating is that the limit in the legislation would be 20 mg because the numbers between 21 mg and 50 mg are higher than in the 50 mg to 80 mg category? There is no consistency in the argument. That is why I am asking Ms Murdock these questions as part of the pre-legislative scrutiny. Could she be straight and say whether she considers this to be a stepping stone to 20 mg being the limit across the board?

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