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:

They are putting lives at risk in many cases. One third of the people involved in those drink-driving offences in that period were people under 30 years of age, which agrees with the research the RSA has done. That is a bracket of people who I would have thought would have learned from the people who came before them, but they have not learned and they are still taking those chances. That needs to change. The other thing I would certainly like to see in the short term as an immediate measure would be provision to have driving licences produced on demand in order that we can do checks on the roadside and make inroads into the really critical behaviours that are changing. That is critical for us. We would need to run a campaign in that context to advise people that they must do it. We need to start enforcing that measure on driving licences in particular. If we get that piece right, the rest of it will flow.

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