Mr. Michael Finn:

The change in legislation where a novice driver or learner driver is now limited to 20 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood has been a significant factor in addressing that cohort of young people who may not have experienced the same level of that education programme which we have had in the past ten years to change the culture of drink-driving. We need to work on that cohort and the message that while 20 mg is not zero, bringing down the limits has helped to change the public's attitude towards drink-driving. It was 100 mg when I was a young garda. The penalties and enforcement, as Mr. Wilson has said, are the real deterrents to drink-driving and are going to impact most on it.

I was asked about resources. We have committed to increasing our level of resources by 10% this year. That is the start of it. As more people come out of the Garda College, we will continue to build the traffic corps back up to the 1,000 we had in 2007, when our force was at its peak. We have that cohort of young people who have joined An Garda Síochána since 2014. More than 800 have completed their training. I have a commitment from our own senior management that I can take those young men and women into the traffic corps and give each of them that experience. That will be valuable for changing their mindset about the people they engage with and to teach that drink-driving is something that we have to get out there and enforce no matter what part of the country we are in. Deterrent is the biggest factor.