Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)

I move amendment No. 8:

In page 5, line 32, to delete "in the State".

As discussed, the system in place does not provide any means of dealing with foreign registered cars or non-national drivers who cannot be traced if they drive through a toll gantry, an issue that also arises with regard to speeding fines. The Minister stated it would be his intention, as far as possible, to pursue persons who lived outside the State and that in time, he hoped, there would be an EU-wide agreement, whereby there would be an exchange of information on driver files. In the short term I hope we would have an arrangement with Northern Ireland in this regard. For that reason, I suggest we remove the phrase "in the State" from section 4(3)(b) which would leave it open to us to use these provisions where there was agreement between North and South or at EU level. I do not see why we should have to revisit the matter. It would not take from the provisions of the Bill as intended and would make sense to do it at this point.

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