Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)

People are dying on our roads at present. It was stated yesterday that gardaí have been detailed to deal with matters relating to the European Presidency and have not been available for traffic duties. I will be attending the funeral this evening of a child who died as a result of someone speeding.

There are a number of matters in respect of which Deputy Grealish's philosophy should be used. I wish to refer to one example, namely, insurance. Unfortunately, there are no members of Fianna Fáil present to hear my contribution. The leader of the Deputy's party has held the position of Minister in an extremely important Department which deals with the issue of insurance. He should approach her and communicate to her the philosophy he outlined earlier. The Government is trying to deal with the matter before us in a period of four to five weeks. It should try to deal with the insurance issue so that small businesses and others will not suffer as a result of the total failure to deal with it in the past. The philosophy of the leaking roof is very good and it should be put into action. The Minister is doing what is right but he is doing it in the wrong way.

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