Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage

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

It is, but it is different with a motorbike or a car because that vehicle is registered, with all of the licensing, insurance and other arrangements in place, which enables An Garda Síochána to have the power to use that information or its judgement in an appropriate manner. The evidence as to the purpose of one of these vehicles, where it was sold, who owns it, and its registration does not exist. In those circumstances, we are better off not creating laws that are not enforceable. That is a basic principle of good legislation.

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