Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)

I am spending more time on the road anyway. Our media outlets must continue to highlight deaths on our roads, not as a stick with which to beat the Government, but as a method of educating and creating better driver behaviour.

I understand the Minister's points on drug abuse and drug driving and this is a matter Deputies on the other side of the House have also addressed. The Minister has clearly pointed out that there is not an adequate test for such matters. I am a former member of the Joint Committee on Transport and a number of experts came before us to address the subject. Testing methods are emerging in this regard and when they become available I hope the Minister will give adequate consideration to their implementation.

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