Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not oppose the amendments. I am quite sure the judgment stated that a legislative change was not needed to give to the ruling and that the State should get on with it.

I support the move to the master licence record, but there is an opportunity to go further. There are anomalous situations whereby, for example, a vehicle can be sold to a child who does not have licence. I raised, during the pre-legislative scrutiny phase, the issue of the potential to create databases that would talk to each other, so to speak, in order to address that anomaly and it was indicated the master licence record would help in that regard. We will bring forward an amendment on Report Stage in my name and the name of my colleague, Deputy Gould, whose constituency in Cork has had some tragic experience of the implications of that anomaly. We hope the Minister will give it due consideration.