Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

The best briefing I got on the Bill as it stands was from Ms Susan Gray, Ms Donna Price, Ms Ann Fogarty and Ms Teresa Leonard. They are great road safety activists from the PARC organisation and they are very anxious to meet with the Minister when the Bill emerges from the House. I wonder if he could facilitate such a meeting as these people have a deep understanding of the issue; each of them suffered an horrendous tragedy in their own family, which has been the basis of their terrific campaign over recent years to bring about safer roads.

We hope the Bill will begin Committee Stage soon and the Minister might indicate when this will be. We clashed before about the evidential breath testing, EBT, machines so what is the timeframe on the recalibration of the machines? Issues have also been raised about intoxilyser machines which will be in Garda stations and the fact that their tolerance is too high compared with the UK and Northern Ireland. Has the Minister any views on that?

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