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Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 34: In page 32, lines 26 and 27, to delete ", Equality".

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 35: In page 35, line 10, to delete ", Equality".

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 36: In page 36, line 32, to delete "address" and substitute "address (inside or outside the State)".

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I made inquiries after Committee Stage. The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform has dealt with this matter in the Fines Bill 2009. That Bill applies to all fines and it meets the concerns the Deputy has expressed. Even though the Deputy was talking about it in this context, he managed to get it through in another context. His concerns are met.

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 38: In page 43, line 6, after "made" to insert "by the Minister". This is a technical amendment.

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 39: In page 43, lines 26 and 27, to delete ", Equality".

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: As the Deputy said, it refers to offences enforced by local authority traffic wardens. They are mainly involved in the use of mechanically propelled vehicles. In such cases where the name and address of an alleged offender is not available or is refused on the demand of the local authority traffic warden, the registration number of the vehicle is available for use in pursuing the identity...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 41: In page 43, line 34, to delete ", Equality".

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 42: In page 44, line 2, to delete ", Equality".

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 43: In page 46, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: T 4 PAYMENT DEPOSIT 50.—(1) This section applies to such offences under— (a) the Road Traffic Acts 1961 to 2010, (b) the Road Transport Act 1933 (including any Act construed as one with it), (c) any regulation made under the European Communities Act 1972 providing for the carriage of merchandise by road...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I thank the Deputies for their support. I am glad they have been positive and accept my amendment. It is an issue that has been raised by Deputy Broughan and others on a number of occasions. The Bill will be put into effect by regulation and I undertake to draft the regulations and bring them to the Oireachtas Committee on Transport for its views, before finalisation, in view of the fact...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 44: In page 46, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: 51.—(1) Where, at any stage of proceedings to which this section applies, a person fails, without reasonable excuse, to appear before the court before which the proceedings are for the time being taking place, the court may do any thing or make any order that it would be entitled to do or make had the...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 45: In page 46, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: 52.—(1) The Minister may make regulations to do anything that appears necessary or expedient for bringing this Part into operation. (2) Where a provision of this Part requires or authorises the Minister to make regulations, such regulations— (a) may make different provision for different circumstances...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Order for Report Stage (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I have thought carefully about it but the reasoning I gave on Committee Stage remains valid. There are other elements in the Bill which it might not be possible to commence and make operational within the proposed 12 month period. I made reference at that time to what is now section 44 of the Bill, by way of example, which involved the out-sourcing of certain functions by the Courts Service...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: " "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister;". This is a technical amendment.

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I accept the spirit of the amendment and the Deputy's motive in tabling it to strengthen the legislation. I examined it carefully and took advice from the Office of the Attorney General and the Medical Bureau of Road Safety. Due to the nature and volume of challenges in the courts to all intoxicated driving offences and the current acceptance by the courts of the well-established meaning of...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I acknowledge the Deputy is ahead of me in this matter and is anticipating future legislation. However, as I explained on Committee Stage, the Road Safety Authority is examining the definitions of mechanically propelled vehicles and pedal cycles in road traffic legislation in the context of the development of a new EU framework regulation on type approval governing two and three-wheeled...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I clarified this since Committee Stage. The definition provided for in section 3 of the principal Act states, "public place means any street, road or other place to which the public have access with vehicles whether as of right or by permission and whether subject to or free of charge." I have been advised this covers the Deputy's concerns. The proposed deletion of the words "in a public...

Road Traffic Bill 2009: Report and Final Stages (23 Jun 2010)

Noel Dempsey: I have reflected on these amendments. However, I have been advised against introducing such a term of imprisonment in summary trial cases as it would go against the overall intention of such trials. The only instance in road traffic legislation in which a term of imprisonment of 12 months is provided for is in section 112 of the principal Act, taking a vehicle without authority. There is a...