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 Moyagh Murdock:

It has improved dramatically. The Chairman might draw the analogy that it is killer behaviour but our research does not show that to be as risky a behaviour as drink driving. My point was that the effect of a penalty change can be dramatic. We believe the current deterrent is not effective enough and changing it to something which is much more meaningful will change driver behaviour.

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