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- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: The Minister should not keep talking about the quality of the amendments. He is being pedantic. He has chosen to focus on one element of a report on the period between 2008 and 2012 and ignored what contributed to the vast majority of fatalities, instead bringing in an amendment to disqualify people with between 50 mg and 80 mg of alcohol in their system. He is saying he does not want to...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I am not equivocating.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: That is nonsense.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I have asked but there is-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I asked the Minister a number of questions, one of which is if he was still operating from the Road Safety Authority, RSA report of 2008 to 2012 and if there was a new audited report from the RSA that has not been made available to the committee members. This is a straightforward "yes" or "no" request. I also asked what the strength of the Garda traffic corps is currently.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: No, sorry that is not the question-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I want the Minister to answer my question.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I want the Minister to answer my question.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: The simple point is that I believe it is disproportionate. The Minister is right but he is wrong in some of his assertions. We helped and ensured the passage of the Bill on Second Stage to allow it to move on to Committee Stage. I am concerned and worried based on the length of time it has taken the Minister to bring in this one piece of legislation. In his contribution a few moments ago...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: That person deserves to be put off the road.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: That has not happened.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: That is a different debate.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I thank the Minister. I do not minimise the loss of one life at all. The point I was making is that, based on the figures supplied by the RSA and the Department, the greatest number of fatalities relate to the higher category. It is currently illegal to exceed 50 mg per 100 ml and that is not going to change. The point I was making on number of people caught in 2016 and subjected to...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I will withdraw amendment No. 1. It is my intention to bring forward an amendment on Report Stage to examine this matter again in order to improve the provision and bring forward stiffer penalties. The Minister will work with us on this.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 1a:In page 3, to delete lines 11 to 32, and in page 4, to delete lines 1 to 14 and substitute the following:“(a) by the substitution of the following for subsection (7):“(7) The fixed charge is—(a) in the case of a concentration of alcohol referred to in subsection (1)(a) or subsection (2)—€500, or (b) €500 in the case of a...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I had another amendment on the wearing of mandatory high visibility or reflective gear by people who walked on unlit rural roads.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: While I accept that the amendments were ruled out of order by the Bills Office, not by the Minister, it does not mean that the Minister does not have a responsibility to address the principles involved in our amendments. Deputy Catherine Martin is well able to articulate her own amendments and the rationale for proposing them. This is the Road Traffic Bill and the Minister can, if he agrees...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: May I just finish?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: The second amendment that was ruled out of order was on the minimum passing distance in respect of cyclists. I welcome the Minister's conversion on the need to bring forward legislation in that regard, which was announced on the morning of the previous meeting. However, he has said today that he will bring forward that measure by way of statutory instrument. Is that correct? There is no...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2018)
Robert Troy: I wish to raise the point of mandatory reflective gear, regarding the amendment that was ruled out of order. Is the Minister agreeable to the principle of that amendment? Is that something we could consider on Report Stage?