Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

It is not October 2009 yet. We hope to enact provisions so that breath testing can be undertaken as a matter of course, subject to any overriding medical considerations, rather than the current authority where the garda may do it. We want to make that the norm, even though we must allow for some medical issues. Legislation takes a while to prepare and it goes back and forth a bit. There is always pressure in the Department and in the Parliamentary Counsel's office, but it is coming.

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