Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is a moral argument about school gates. One can look at Louth or any other county. I will use the example of Sheelagh school in north County Louth. There have been attempts to have speed-limiting ramps or such installed, or to have the speed limit changed. The difficulty is that it is a rural road. It is along the road from a junction with a relatively major arterial route. If it was at all possible, if we introduced 30 km/h limits around schools, we would have to make it much easier for people to be able to deliver on this. We would have to deliver those solutions. Many people have engaged with local authorities and whoever else they need to. They constantly have obstacles thrown in their way. Many of those obstacles relate to planning laws and to the particular location. Sometimes, people decide that what they actually want is a speed limit that, in a perfect world, would only exist when children are travelling to and from the school.