Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

One could almost do an NCT in two minutes. It might not be a very effective one but it could be done.

Knowledge of the rules of the road still leaves a little to be desired. We need road courtesy and to give the individual in front reasonable space. A driver does not have to be intimidating all the time. The person behind does not have to come in the back window just to let me know he or she is there. People should not get off the road for a person who believes he or she is a more important than everybody else. We can tell by the way someone drives whether he or she believes in his or her own importance. He or she usually beeps the horn and does all sorts of things to intimidate. That is petty and does not do anything to calm the nerves. It certainly gets on the nerves of many other people.

I still have the licence plate number of the guy who was reading the newspaper as he drove along this morning but I will retain it for further use.

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