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Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...or in the vicinity of the checkpoint concerned (for a period that does not exceed 30 minutes after the provision of the specimen) until the apparatus referred to in subsection (4)(b) indicates the presence or absence of drugs in the specimen.”, (b) in subsection (5), by the substitution of “(4) or (4A)” for “(4)”, and (c) in subsection (6)(a), by the...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Jack Chambers: ..., in particular last year, which had 188 deaths. The trend is still going in the wrong direction in 2024. The Bill will target three concerning areas, namely, penalty points reform, mandatory drug testing at the scene of serious collisions and the implementation of key recommendations of the speed limit review. It is a much-needed Bill that will assist in reversing this trend and I am...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...the vicinity of the public place concerned (for a period that does not exceed 30 minutes after the provision of the specimen) until the apparatus referred to in subsection (2A) indicates the presence or absence of drugs in the specimen.”,”. These amendments are being taken together. As a group, they are in response to a recent court case that made findings of concern...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Pa Daly: I have one question. Does this apply to random drug stops? That is one query. I extend sympathies and condolences to people whose lives have changed due to loss of life on Irish roads. Sinn Féin will not be standing in the way of the Minister of State's Bill, but we do feel there are some glaring inadequacies in it. The Minister of State must surely accept that the Bill does...