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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: We will look at that as well. We will look at both of those issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: I am completely sympathetic. A two-year speed limit review is absolutely ridiculous. The Deputy is talking about Kerry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: There is nothing in my Department that I can do about it if Kerry County Council is doing it. Delivery of the outcomes is a matter for each local authority. I do not see any role I can play in that. If it is doing that review of the speed limits and speed limits are a matter of jurisdiction, there is nothing I can do to speed up its reviews. If I can, I certainly will.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: If the council is addressing an issue like a dangerous area, which is a matter we should be addressing, I can certainly intervene but I do not see an opening for me to come in when it is carrying out a review and tell it to hurry up. The council would regard that as a gross interference. If it is involved in a dangerous spot or a black spot which TII is also looking into, I will intervene....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: I encourage the use of any technology. I have a note here on alco-locks. My officials are currently examining this equipment for use by repeat offenders.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: We will do that and report back to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Certainly. Will the Chairman send the Department a memo on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: We will respond accordingly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: It is a very good suggestion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Is the cause of what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Above 50 mg is the limit anyway, which we are not going to change at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: There is no greater evidence of that now than there has ever been. There is the same evidence there has always been. They are over the limit. All we are doing is applying the same level and punishment of disqualification to them as to everyone else. It is simply a question of creating a level playing field.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: We are targeting concentrations above 50 mg. We are not targeting those in the bracket from 50 mg to 80 mg at all. We are simply removing the exemption in place. That is all we are doing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: The evidence is that with a concentration above 50 mg, there is the problem. That is all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: I will have to send you a breakdown of this, because there seems to be a misunderstanding here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: Yes, there is a difference in the penalty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: There is evidence to suggest that the ability to drive is impaired in anyone with a blood alcohol concentration over 50 mg.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: No. What I am saying is that the message has to go out to the effect that anyone over the legal limit is disqualified. That is the message. It is simple and there will be no exceptions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: The anomaly in this case is that there was ever an exemption. That is the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Shane Ross: The whole basis of the laws we are introducing is that a blood alcohol concentration over a certain level is dangerous and causes death. That is the whole basis for it and we are not going to provide any exemptions for anyone.