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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: Perhaps you can give us clarification.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: If there are data in this regard, will you provide them to the committee? Can you furnish the committee with as much information as you have on that front as early as possible, please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: What about those in the category of a blood alcohol concentration of between 50 mg and 80 mg?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: Can we have clarification on those figures? Is there any explanation for the difference there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: These are people who have gone through the process and have been found guilty in court.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: To clarify for the information and the work of the committee, when the witness says detections, is that the breath test alone or is it following a blood or urine sample? For detection to be classified in those figures, is it after someone is brought to a station and gives a sample or is it just after a breath test?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: I just wanted to be certain about the figures we are dealing with.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: Okay. If members have questions that arise afterwards, we can meet in private session to decide if we need to write to any witnesses or receive further information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: They were circulated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: They were in the supporting documentation. The Deputy did not get them as he is not a member. They were circulated to the members of the committee. We are still looking at a significant reduction compared with the maximum number that was in place a number of years ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: Is there a timeline on implementation of the drug testing legislation we passed through here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: Will you repeat that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: Those at the 40 milligrams level were twice as likely to be in a collision.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: I will bring in Deputy Fitzpatrick but I am conscious Ms Treacy and Ms Price have indicated they wish to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: I am anxious to come to Ms Treacy but Mr. O'Donohue wants to clarify an issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: Ms Treacy has been anxious to comment for a while and I thank her for patience.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: Ms Price wants to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: I thank Ms Price. I want to ask a few questions and there will be time later for further questions. All the members of this committee agreed that we would have sessions on road safety because, as was pointed out by Deputy Troy, we are extremely concerned about the increase in the number of road fatalities last year. This relates to a cultural mindset. In the 1970s, more than 600 people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: I take it that the Garda keep an eye on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Brendan Griffin: We have spent much time discussing the enforcement of speed limits and drink-driving limits. I have raised with the Department, the Minister and the RSA the use of technology to prevent the crime form happening in the first instance. If we have an agreed blood alcohol limit in legislation, the use of an alcolock device will ensure that a vehicle cannot be activated by a person who is over...