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

We need to make sure we improve road safety. It is critical at this time of year, and given that we have seen the number of road deaths rise and a terrible fatality list. Road safety should absolutely come first at every turn. That is why we are looking, as I have indicated, to heed the advice of the RSA to bring in regulation of lower speed limits such that we can regulate the types of vehicles that are sold. As for sale of vehicles, however, there is nothing we could introduce that would regulate an adult purchasing one of these vehicles and then it being used by his or her son or daughter. It is impossible. We know that. It is a reality. Furthermore, as for the policing, in the absence of a mandatory identity card system and a licensing and registration arrangement, which we do not have with this, it is an unenforceable provision. It would be a false promise and bad policy for us to pursue supposed safety measures that did not actually enhance or improve safety and, therefore, it is better to remove the section, to my mind.