Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

We will see. We have done and are doing a good job on the legislation and I expect to see the results carried through to practical application.

Deputies Cowley and Shortall have correctly made the point that young people are drinking excessively and wrapping their cars around trees. If these people ignore the 80 milligram per 100 millilitre blood alcohol limit, they will not pay much attention to the 50 milligram per 100 millilitre blood alcohol limit. The level of the limit does not affect those people. They are simply abusing the law. They have no consideration for themselves or their passengers, as we have seen in some recent accidents. They do not have any consideration for other road users either.

I am not ruling the move out, and there is a body of work to be done on the issue. The blood alcohol limits in the UK, which has one of the best road safety records in the world, are the same as ours. It is not necessarily about blood alcohol limits.

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