Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Disqualified Drivers: Discussion
1:30 pm
Mr. David Sheahan:
We need to change behaviour, particularly around drink-driving. Ms Murdock has already said this. We saw a spike of 235 people being detected drink-driving last bank holiday weekend. The normal weekly turnover of drunk-drivers is approximately 182. That figure is way above what we would expect. If that level of behaviour is continuing, we have a difficulty. We need to call it out. There are people who are taking chances and they are putting lives at risk.
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