Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The committee will consider and deliberate on this legislation and report back to me as Minister. If there are any valid or reasonable points in the report or any other report that the Deputy wishes to have considered, the option is available to him to put them on the table. There has been a great deal of legal examination and consideration given to this penalty points system and the previous one. The previous system received close examination, as we have just discussed, through engagement with the committee and the many amendments that were proposed and considered in detail and great depth. This approach, with the masters penalty points system, follows on from that. It is framed in this way because it is what is required to ensure we introduce a system that is compliant. The option is available to Deputy Mac Lochlainn to bring any specific suggestions he wishes into the mix and have them examined. Much consideration has been given in advance of this Bill to ensuring that it introduces a system that brings us into compliance.