Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)

Forgive me, I wish to jump in again because of the clock. Technology has moved on light years in that ten-year period and policy has not matched it.

I have questions for the witnesses from An Garda Síochána. The last time we dealt with this body of work in the previous Oireachtas transport committee we looked at drug driving. An Garda Síochána has a way of testing people. I made the point that a driver may be in another person’s house or at a house party some evening and there may be somebody in the room smoking cannabis. A person cannot get passively drunk by sitting across from someone who is drinking, and if someone is smoking nicotine, that is another thing. However, a person who has not consumed marijuana can passively get high by sitting in the same room as someone who is smoking cannabis. The witnesses on the day admitted that was a lacuna in law. It is hard for someone to say, "I didn't consume it, but there was a guy sitting across from me all evening smoking a joint." Has An Garda Síochána come up a way to deal with that when they test people?