Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

They are not remote but parts are very rural. The legislation is before the House and it is for the House to accept, amend or refuse it. I do not agree that the Bill has not been rural-proofed. The facts indicate that the vast majority of those who die on our roads are not killed in Dublin or Cork city centres or in our towns and cities. People who die on the roads in Ireland tend to die on the roads in rural Ireland. If rural-proofing means saving the lives of people in rural Ireland, the Bill has certainly been rural-proofed.

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