Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 44:

In page 16, to delete lines 33 to 41, to delete page 17, and in page 18, to delete lines 1 to 27.

Moving on from the insurance provisions, these amendments relate to the management of the M50 initially. The provisions could apply to other roads if they are designated as such by the Minister of the day. It is to more specifically designate Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, as the organisation that will have the ability to implement the provisions of the text for managing traffic flows on the M50 and give it the ability to vary speed limits. It will allow TII to slow traffic on the M50, manage the road and close lanes temporarily to manage traffic flows. Those powers previously lay with local authorities - the Dublin local authorities in this case. It is to specifically designate TII as the operator of this new variable speed system and, as I stated, to give the Minister of the day power to designate other national roads as needs be to provide similar provisions.

A new section 49 will be inserted into the Bill to amend section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 so that the current offence-----