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
Ms Velma Burns:
I understand the Chairman's point and I had expected to see a difference across the years but, in fact, if one takes the figure of 38% - which was the overall figure measuring the impact of alcohol in fatal collisions - it was very consistent for every year within that five-year period. It is not like the bulk of those alcohol-related collisions occurred in 2008 and 2009. That was not the case. They were consistent across the years.
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