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

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

Catherine Connolly: The first amendment is in the name of the Minister and arises out of committee proceedings. Amendments Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

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

Jack Chambers: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2B): “(2C) Where a member of the Garda Síochána, under subsection (2A), requires a person to provide a specimen of oral fluid from his or her mouth, the member shall require the person to remain at a place...

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...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I will ask the Minister of State a number of very serious questions. He is the Minister of State at the Department of Transport and there is a new regulation after being sent out whereby young drivers driving most vehicles will have to have an artic licence to cover them while driving. Does he realise the implications of this for young people who are trying to get going? What he is saying...

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

Catherine Connolly: I am giving the Deputy great latitude but this is not related to the amendment.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I appreciate that and it has not gone unnoticed. I will finish up. Will the Minister of State please clarify this matter? This is hurting all of rural Ireland on top of all the other adverse things that have happened in recent times, with the nitrates derogation and the nature restoration law that was passed over in Europe the other day without any thought of how it was going to hurt small...

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

Catherine Connolly: All my flexibility has been used up by now.

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

Michael Collins: Mother of God, I would appreciate if there was a little bit left. There was talk earlier about speed limits, which are a very serious concern in my constituency. We have great sympathy for anyone who gets hurt in an accident and it is a concern but there has been a low rate of deaths in west Cork, and I pray to God that this continues for the people there. However, we are driving in...

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

Jack Chambers: I thank the Deputies for the items they raised. Some did not relate to the Bill but I am happy to come back on some of those. Deputy Daly raised the issue of roadside testing. This would apply to any planned or random checkpoint in the context of testing, as per his question. In the context of the RSA allocation, we found additional reserves in the RSA budget towards the end of last...

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

Amendment agreed to.

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

Jack Chambers: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, lines 30 and 31, to delete “subsection (2) or (2A)” and substitute “subsection (2), (2A) or (2C)”.

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

Amendment agreed to.

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

Jack Chambers: I move amendment No. 3: In page 9, lines 32 and 33, to delete “subsection (2) or (2A)” and substitute “subsection (2), (2A) or (2C)”.

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

Amendment agreed to.

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

Jack Chambers: I move amendment No. 4: In page 9, after line 33, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 10 of Act of 2010 13. Section 10 of the Act of 2010 is amended— (a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (4): “(4A) Where a member of the Garda Síochána, under paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection (4), requires a person to provide...

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

Amendment agreed to.

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

Jack Chambers: I move amendment No. 5: In page 9, after line 33, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 22 of Act of 2010 14. Section 22 of the Act of 2010 is amended in subsection (1A) (inserted by section 13(i) of the Act of 2023) by the substitution of “subsection (2), (2A) or (2C)” for “subsection (2) or (2A)”.”.

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

Amendment agreed to.

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

Bill, as amended, received for final consideration.