Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. Deputy Daly has made most of the points I wish to make. We need a public inquiry to reveal any discrepancies or malpractice that might exist in the system. If the Minister is so confident that such practices are now taking place, he should have no problem clearing the way for such an inquiry to take place. It would be good for the country if people were to be assured that there is not one law for well-connected and wealthy people and another law for the ordinary Joe or Mary who happens to find himself or herself in circumstances in which penalty points might be applicable. The ability to work of people in the taxi industry, for example, can be affected in this way. That has to be addressed. The system has to be seen to be fair, clean, open and transparent. Everybody who has penalty points should have to appeal them in the proper way.

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