Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed)

9:30 am

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We go down this road all the time and it is extraordinary to hear those words from somebody who conspicuously avoids disqualifying drivers who are impaired to the extent of between 50 mg and 80 mg of alcohol in their system. It is an extraordinary piece of hypocrisy and if the Deputy was genuinely worried, as he says he is, he would favour disqualification. Instead, his amendments avoid the issue of disqualification and would continue to allow people to drive with between 50 mg and 80 mg of alcohol in their system. Why does he not just accept the proposal? Deputy Troy has equivocated on this and moved from one position to another. Now he is pretending that he wants to put people-----

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