Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for being here. Picking up on that point about the default baseline, I think many people's starting point is that there are a range of anomalies in the speed limits, and I agree that they are perceived as targets in many people's minds. There are lots of anomalies now. One of the ways in which this has been presented is that it will be a standard across the board and we will still have those anomalies in different places and they might be even more anomalous. Will the Minister of State speak to the flexibility that is there? Is it at a local authority level where the authority can assess and appropriately adjust upward or downward to ensure the speed limits are appropriate to the environment, while I guess there is an overall intention to reduce them?