Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The EU regulation on this updated the previous 2009 regulation on safety technologies. It requires all cars, vans, trucks and buses to be equipped, in addition to tyre pressure monitoring systems, with minimum safety systems such as intelligent speed assistance, alcohol interlock installation facilitation, driver drowsiness and attention warning, advanced driver distraction warning, emergency stop signal, reversing detection, events data recorders, and advanced emergency braking and lane keeping assistance are also mandated for light duty vehicles.

Both must be capable of detecting, first, obstacles and vehicles moving in front of the vehicle and, as a second stage, extend the detection capability to include pedestrians and cyclists in front of the vehicle. Obviously, that applies to all new cars from July 2024 in the context of the European Union, whether a new model or not.

In terms of the look-back at the second-hand and traded market, this regulation applies to new vehicles. It is a European position and European regulations so it is something that we can have further engagement on with the Commission as to how it can retrospectively examine that. When such European regulations are introduced, as the fleet circulation changes, it is about trying-----

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