Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Last week was road safety week but up to a few days ago 118 citizens had, tragically, died on the roads. Before last Christmas we passed the Road Traffic Act. Section 35A specifically said it shall be an offence for the owner of a vehicle to allow it to be driven by a learner driver driving unaccompanied. In the past ten months the Minister has done absolutely nothing to commence the section. As he is aware, the provision came forward in response to calls from the PARC road safety group and also Mr. Noel Clancy, a farmer from north Cork, who tragically lost his wife Geraldine and daughter Louise in a road traffic crash involving an unaccompanied learner driver. The Minister promised just after Christmas that the relevant section would come into force as soon as possible and that he would check with the Attorney General. He also told RTÉ on 6 January last, in response to the Clancy family's demands, that this would be done, but it still has not been done ten months later.

See this speech in context