Brendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The amendment was debated on Committee Stage and I will not go through the case I made. It was driven by a response to the Clancy tragedy this time last year in Cork. Mr. Noel Clancy called on the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to implement legislation to the effect that allowing one's car to be driven by an unaccompanied learner driver would be an offence on the part of the car owner. My amendment seeks to address the issue and to be helpful to the Minister. Members of the Clancy family are in the Gallery along with the PARC Road Safety Group and I welcome them.

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