Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept what the Minister is saying. Dare I say it, it is the kind of response at which people kind of throw their hands in the air. I sat on a local authority where, in the context of littering, people were talking about naming and shaming. People react to such measures. In the same way that Revenue publishes a list of tax defaulters, which is a deterrent for people to default on their taxes, the vast majority of the public would accept the use of cameras if people are blatantly breaking red lights and are a danger to everybody, including themselves. This is the kind of area where data protection and the general data protection regulation, GDPR, get a bad name. We should ensure whatever laws need to be in place for safeguarding are there, but the GDPR alone should not be a barrier to doing something. It is in everybody's interest that people do not go around crashing into one another and breaking lights consistently, whether pedestrian lights, in particular, or any set of lights.

The National Car Testing Service, NCTS, system, comes under the remit of the Minister's Department. I am not due a test until October but I can do it early from July. The dates I am being offered, however, are by and large in September. A person might, if lucky, have a look at 2 o'clock in the morning and find a vacancy that has arisen in July, but there seems to be a backlog in respect of the NCTS. Is the Minister familiar with what the volume of backlog is? Are measures in place to try to reduce the backlog? Road safety is important in the context of cars too.