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- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Go on.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Hold on. I ask the Deputy to take his seat. He will have an opportunity to ask questions. While this may not be in compliance with Standing Orders, for good sense to prevail, I ask Deputies who have questions to put their questions in a period of three minutes. Everybody is intelligent and it will not be necessary for Deputies to expand on their questions. Is that informal agreement accepted?
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I note the Deputy's point.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I can do as I proposed to avoid repetition, and I will be fairly sharp if I find there is repetition. The amendment is in the name of Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice. I ask him to comply with the informal rules.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The black box to which the Deputy is referring is not part of the amendment which is very clear. It reads "the provisions of this subparagraph shall not apply in circumstances where a driving test date has not been supplied to an applicant within a period of six weeks from the date of their application”. That is really what we are talking about.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Deputy has moved no amendment concerning the black box.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I will interrupt the Deputy. We had an informal agreement that we would focus on questions. At this stage he has asked several questions. Numerous questions have been asked by Deputies since the resumption of the debate on amendment No. 22. I am going to give the Minister an opportunity to deal with those questions. I will then allow a round of strictly questions and the Minister to deal...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: If they are questions-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: I have noted the last one about the lady working in the shop asking when the Bill would be passed. I am taking note of them and will make sure the Minister answers them.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: Of course, but they have to be questions. I give the Deputy my word. I have no choice. Perhaps when the Minister answers, he might deal with the many questions the Deputy has asked and some that have yet to be asked. I call the Minister to deal with questions that have been asked . This is not the end of questions.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: What is the point of order?
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Minister might be prepared to speak, but-----
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Members wishing to speak have to be given the opportunity to speak. I am asking those Deputies to act reasonably and not to speak indefinitely, as they have done so far.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: If I may make a recommendation, if the Deputies are allowed to speak and want answers to their questions the questions should be posed. It is not necessary to deliver a full Second Stage speech. Will the Deputies agree to pose any questions they might have? I will then call on the Minister to answer the questions asked prior to this and any questions arising now.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Minister is suggesting that he will now answer the questions that were asked, and if there are further questions he will answer them at a later stage.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: It is not up to me. I cannot offer that proposal to Members if the Minister might not answer questions at a later stage. We have to make progress. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae is the next speaker and I ask him to remember to pose questions. I remind him that the amendment we are discussing reads: "Provided that the provisions of this subparagraph shall not apply in circumstances where a driving...
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: We understand the principle of the question now. The question is what happens to a person left at the side of the road in the circumstances outlined, whether it is in Sneem or Dungloe or elsewhere. We will look for an answer to that question. The Deputy may ask his next question.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Deputy has asked the same question twice.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The same legislation will apply regardless of where one is leaving from or travelling to.
- Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)
Pat Gallagher: The Deputy is asking a question he has already asked. The Minister has noted his question and will answer it.