Feargal Quinn (Independent)

I move:

That Seanad Éireann, encouraged by the drop in road traffic deaths that has apparently resulted from the introduction of penalty points, urges the Minister for Transport to implement without delay all outstanding aspects of the national road safety strategy.

I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy McDaid. Senators will notice that the wording of the motion was designed to encourage a positive debate and I am delighted to see that Government Members did not feel obliged to table an amendment to it. They would have a job thinking up an amendment to something which was actually complimentary to them.