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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Mr. Sheahan is showing a bad example; he should have the new one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: What is the turnaround period for the driver who hands over the licence? Is it five minutes or ten minutes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I welcome the witnesses from the RSA and An Garda Síochána. I thank them for their comprehensive and informative contributions. What we are being told today beggars belief. We are blaming current issues on legislation going through the Dáil and filibustering. However, according to what we have heard, perhaps the Minister is not doing his job. Ms Murdock said, his...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: He should be here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: He should be here-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I am trying to get across to the committee-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The witnesses are the people who will take it back to their various departments and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I am being forthright here. When it comes to road safety, the other major issue is young drivers. Prior to the last meeting, there was a major road tragedy in Donegal, which involved a 14 year old. I saw a report by a road safety official who said that the only way to stop road tragedies among young drivers in Donegal is to have a night-time curfew. They are trying to wash their hands of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I have one more point to make around clarification-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: What I have to say is being-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I thought the Chair was shutting down the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I have to come in here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I take offence. In Ms Murdock's opening statement she said the legislation is robust. It has been proven that it is not robust. It has been proven that the existing Road Traffic Act, as amended down through the years since 1961, is not functioning properly in its current form, even without amending it further. I take offence at the suggestion that Deputies in Dáil Éireann are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: No, fair is fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: They have accused colleagues of ours in the Oireachtas-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: That is a matter of opinion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Can I put a final question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disqualified Drivers: Discussion (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I was not going to raise this today in this forum. Obviously when we go about producing legislation we need to have facts and figures in front of us. Do we not? The Minister, Deputy Ross, came into this committee as early as February 2017 and he had made comments even before that. In 2016, he gave us a written statement which stated he thought the current legislation on driving with a...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: We welcome the summer economic statement by the Minister for Finance, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, and we note the change in the funding strategy for Irish Water. I have raised this issue before. Could Irish Water be asked to update its strategy for the upgrade and development of wastewater treatment facilities in Mitchelstown and Churchtown where a nursing home development has been put on hold...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I have done so, and it is the whole town-----