Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will finish with this because it is an important point. They are being treated like criminals, but they are not criminals. They are driving perfectly safe lorries. People should know what they go through - the mental torture they go through - because of what they are threatened with and the upset it causes. It is not as though I am trying to promote unsafe transport. Nothing could be further from the truth. It makes no sense to me that a vehicle which has passed a test can be pulled into the side of the road by people who will go through it like a dose of salts. You could have passed it the day before.