Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)

I would understand it if we were just discussing the potential to cause harm or a conviction for inappropriate sexual activity, for example, sex with a minor, but drug trafficking is also one of the serious offences laid out in the Bill. I do not understand why the Minister has decided that a driver's conviction for a drug offence, such as the importation of drugs, would cause harm to passengers on a bus. It would have greater implications for people driving for international hauliers, given the potential for them to carry on their illicit practices of old. I do not intend to push the matter by way of amendment, but the Minister should consider it ahead of next year's proposed transport Bill. There is no great difference. Indeed, it is probably of greater importance in the case of the carriage of goods, particularly given that the offence might relate to a conviction for drug trafficking.

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