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Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Everybody's time. What about Sinéad McDaid's time? How about Aisling Gallagher's time?

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: It is not a cheap shot.

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Somebody must be responsible for investigating these cases.

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: With respect, Sir, I disagree that I am talking outside the terms of the amendment. I challenge that.

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I will not make an issue out of it. I strongly support this amendment. The NRA, the HSA and the Garda Síochána are not in a position to co-ordinate post-accident investigations properly. Somebody must be responsible for doing so. What is the point of making regulations if they are not implemented?

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: That had to happen because of the death of Aisling Gallagher.

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: This is true, Minister, and I hope it will be enforced now.

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I wonder.

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: It takes so much to get action.

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I can give the Minister more names if he wants.

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I move amendment No. 47: In page 12, line 36, after "learner" to insert "and exempted older persons". I am referring again to older people who deserve some consideration. I ask the Minister to examine the possibility of mandatory retraining or some type of limited test for older people who have been driving for years. Older people do not want to evade their responsibilities but to do the...

Road Traffic Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed). (5 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I thank the Minister for that commitment.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (6 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I second Deputy Finian McGrath's appeal to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform regarding Peter Preston, who has been outside the Dáil for the past 44 days on hunger strike.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (6 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, how AIB Wexford could overcharge a small business, Tweedswood Limited in Wexford, so much that it almost went into bankruptcy last week; that AIB has admitted this overcharging but disputes the amount of €460,000 on foot of overcharging calculated by a specialist company Bank-Check...

Order of Business (Resumed). (6 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The first matter I wish to raise concerns the fact that we will have no facility to ask parliamentary questions over the recess, even though the Ministers and the Civil Service will still be working. Everything will stop with regard to all the matters with which we want to deal. We cannot deal with them until we return in September because no questions will be answered. This is a major problem.

Order of Business (Resumed). (6 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: My question relates to a second matter. A letter in The Irish Times yesterday sought information on alleged price fixing by the major oil companies in Roscommon. Is there any legislation to deal with that? The Competition Authority has tried to deal with it, but it is still happening.

Order of Business (Resumed). (6 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: May I ask a final brief question?

Order of Business (Resumed). (6 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: My final query concerns Tweedswood Limited. It was overcharged €466,000——

Order of Business (Resumed). (6 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: The bank has admitted overcharging ——

Disposal of Shares in Aer Lingus Group plc: Motion. (6 Jul 2006)

Jerry Cowley: Six seconds.