Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I thank my colleagues for their support and for the great effort they put into the Bill. I hope I have gone some way to meeting the requirements expressed by amendments. We hope this Bill will be a substantive contribution to road safety.

I appreciate the interest shown by the Members and thank them for their warm encouragement to the chairman of the new road safety authority. He feels it is genuine and is well set to begin his work in the non-political way I wanted. I have no doubt he will do that. My experience in the short time I have interacted with him is that he brings tremendous professionalism and commitment to his work and shows determination to achieve results. I appreciate the comments from Members. I also thank my officials for their help and attention to detail in working on this Bill.

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