Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I do not know what the Minister is playing at, but he should cease playing and do his job.

A peculiar system operates here with regard to penalty points. I know a number of constituents who travel through Newtownmountkennedy and some of them exceeded the speed limit there. It is a strange situation because the limit changes as one approaches and changes back again. On technical and legal advice a number of people went to court and had their penalties struck out, while a number of others, assuming the law applied universally, paid their fines. I put a question to the Minister in this regard last week but did not get a clear answer. Those who paid have handed over the money, whether right or wrong, but those who challenged the situation in court won.

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