Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise to our guests for being in and out of the meeting. I thank them for their work. Today is an important day because, as the Assistant Commissioner said, it is about people. We have seen a lot of commentary about the upsurge in road deaths. It is people to whom that is happening. That is what we are about.

The comparable figures to this year are those for 2019 rather than those during the pandemic in 2020. Would that be fair comment? Okay. I apologise in advance because I have a couple of hobbyhorses and I am probably wrong about this. I am happy to stand corrected. I support all our guests in the work they are doing. Professor Cusack made an important point in his presentation on which we have not dwelled. It was in the context of medications properly prescribed and dispensed. Is the use of prescription medications when people go behind the wheel something about which we should have a national discussion? I know the pamphlet with some medications states they may cause drowsiness. Is this a significant factor on which we should be dwelling further?