Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What he said is just not true as we got the most enormous injection of money, which I suspect is more than any transport Minister has ever had in terms of capital investment. I will address the point about rickshaws. That was the subject of another amendment I accepted in this House. I referred it to the people who know about it, namely, the NTA, and it is coming forward with proposals to amend the rickshaw legislation and that will be done. The issue is being addressed directly as a result of exchanges in this House and by virtue of the fact that I accepted the proposed amendment.

The reason we are having a debate on this issue is because I accepted Deputy Broughan's amendment. It is not very often that amendments get accepted on the floor of this House. The difficulty is not in the content but in the drafting. The difficulty is in the definitions. That is what I have got to clear up. It would be madness for me to go ahead with this particular amendment, laudable and all as it is, if it was to land in the courts on day one. What I want to do is make sure it is robust, bullet proof and that we do save lives when we introduce the measure. The last thing I want to do is to complicate the law on unaccompanied drivers by accepting an amendment which is flawed. My ambition is to see it through but to see it through as good law.

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