Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

Obviously the Garda is responsible for the enforcement of all traffic law and that includes every vehicles on our roads. There is a test on the structure, rust, chassis, brakes, suspension, glazing and so on. Everything comes into the test and the standard of testing is quite rigorous. All I was trying to explain to the House was the legal procedure I have to go through if we want to proceed in that direction. That is all I have given to the House and I am minded to do that. We all have to understand there are huge implications for the bus industry if we do this and their would be huge capacity implications immediately if every bus was put off the road. The EU decided not to go down this road for a myriad of reasons. We should not forget that all new buses coming on the market from next year must have safety belts.

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