Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

Baden-Baden is a place and some of our towns are twinned with it. The Minister should listen rather than sneer. This Minister has a problem, a lack of concentration. The number of conflicting road signs vying for our drivers' attention is significant and a serious distraction. These signs are a problem.

Ministers are not competent to comment on driving or road conditions because they do not drive. They come into the House and spout to us about how we should drive and what we should take into account, yet many of them have not driven a car during the past ten years. How dare they suggest they know more about driving than the rest of us?

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