Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

Both of us would like to have attended because it is the launch of the critical Christmas road safety programme. The past few weeks have been terrible in this regard.

I will ask a question of the Minister of State and perhaps the officials will take it on board. Will the guidelines to be issued under the Bill, about which we spoke at length last Friday afternoon on Committee Stage, be examined to see whether a reference to the rural transport network can be included? On that basis I will withdraw amendment No. 2.

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