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

I have one other issue to raise. There is one other desperate demon on our roads and that is deer. The Office of Public Works denies it has any responsibility and the National Parks and Wildlife Service denies it has any obligation to keep the deer off the roads. If you are responsible for the tag in the ear of an animal and something happens and the animals are not insured they would take the house from you. They would clean you out. So many people are being killed because of deer. They are being seriously maimed. The other morning the new car of a young fellow, who had to pay €4,500 to insure it, was made in flitters when he was going to work. This was on a public road of which the local authority is in charge. The State is responsible for it. This is what is happening on our roads. Deer are killing people.