Mr. Ray O'Leary:

At the same time, we would want the volume of primary legislation change to be minimal, because it is like painting a moving target. It is one of the things we would like to do, but we are also dealing with emerging technologies such as personal powered transport, issues around autonomous vehicles and unexpected international events such as Brexit. Our legislative efforts are focused on responding to the fact that we are not meeting our road death targets, and we are, therefore, trying to strengthen the code on killing behaviours like intoxicants and speeding. Given the resources we have, our legislative efforts have prioritised those areas. I recently had a very informal discussion with some colleagues about this matter. I am not making a commitment to the committee, but trying to show that this is something we think about. We have been considering what do in the short term, not just tomorrow. To start, we will probably need to think about getting somebody in to do some kind of project plan on this, if Deputy MacSharry will permit that. It is worth noting that we have consolidated in previous iterations of the road traffic law. For example, the drink driving code is consolidated, bar the most recent amendments. There are elements where that has happened. If one were to do a project plan for this, one would first take a part of the code and consolidate that. There are models where it might be consolidated in phases as well as one big block. There is a political bullet to bite in terms of the Oireachtas, Ministers and our own capacity to divert our resources to manage that. It has not caused any identifiable damage to the law's enforcement, but it does make it more time consuming for all parties involved.