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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: No, this is the point I am making. What was the drink-driving limit being used in these questions? Was it 80 mg or 50 mg?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The legal limit is 50 mg, so people are happy enough when it comes to law.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The Minister is changing it. He is putting people off the road for three months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: He is keeping the level at 50 mg, but those below 80 mg will now go off the road also.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Three months off the road.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: There is a big difference. The Minister knows that. He is making a big change in people's livelihoods-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I do not think I mentioned tourists.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: There is no call for that, Chairman. The Minister is pre-empting an outcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The Minister is pre-empting an outcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: On 8 February this year, the Minister made the comment: "I am concerned that in certain cases where people have breached the alcohol limit while driving, the awarding of three penalty sends out the message that it is not a serious offence." In other words, he was saying that people do not take any notice of the three penalty points, that they are not a deterrent. The Chairman asked the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: It is. The Chairman asked the Minister a question, which I have also asked the Minister for Justice and Equality, about whether there have been repeat offenders in the 50 mg to 80 mg range bracket.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The Minister said drivers are not acknowledging the awarding of the penalty points as a deterrent to being caught in the future. I asked him if there have been repeat offenders and he cannot answer that question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The Minister has made that blatant statement and he is making a joke of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: Yes.
- Defence Forces: Motion (4 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I commend my colleague, Deputy Lisa Chambers, for bringing this Private Members' motion to the floor of the House. It is vital that the issue of island defence is highlighted. It was neglected by the Government and the previous Fine Gael-Labour Party Government for long enough. The actions of Fine Gael have imposed hardship on members of the Defence Forces and their families. In the past...
- Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: I thank the Minister for his response. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport on 22 February, Ms Anne Graham CEO of the NTA said: "I cannot give an undertaking that the same level of service would be put in place in regard to those routes...". The NTA has a major role to play in this dispute. This dispute would never have come about if the NTA had been more...
- Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: The time has come for tit-for-tat politics to end. It is time for the Government to lead through policy on Bus Éireann. Is it not enough for our public transport system to be at a standstill for 12 days? What is clear is that we are faced with two possible outcomes where either we find a solution to the current crisis or we see Bus Éireann go into examinership and then almost...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (4 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve funding for a specific project by a school (details supplied). [16561/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (4 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve funding in respect of a school (details supplied). [16581/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates (4 Apr 2017)
Kevin O'Keeffe: 310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if local authorities will be requested to suspend all further charges, that is, levy for street furniture and billboards, in lieu of bringing proposals to Cabinet for the review of commercial rates. [16132/17]