Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I used to be involved with the AXA road safety stuff and it used to go out to the Royal Marine Hotel in Dún Laoghaire. They had mothers there who had lost children and people who had got a car on their first day. I saw transition year students, not just girls, but mostly girls, but also guys coming out in tears afterwards. It was shocking. Then the students went outside and saw the fire services cutting a car apart and taking out a mock-up person from a crash and so on. It hit home but we have lost some of that. There was that awful ad campaign years ago where the car bounces over the fence and hits the young child in the back garden.