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:

-----for dangerous driving and an offence that is deemed to have caused injury or death. There is a multitude of reasons a person can lose his or her licence. Some of them relate to an accumulation of penalty points but that accumulation could be for multiple factors. It could be for parking, speeding or other traffic offences. There are quite a number of offences out there that accumulate penalty points. In respect of how many people lost their licences as a result of speeding, the speeding might have been the last nail in the coffin. We cannot isolate it into one-----

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