Seanad debates
Wednesday, 5 February 2003
Road Safety: Motion.
Penalty points were introduced in Northern Ireland in 1996. However, a driver from Armagh driving in Brighton who infringes the law cannot have this reflected in his penalty points in Northern Ireland. There are two separate systems within the United Kingdom, one for England, Scotland and Wales and the other for Northern Ireland. That is crazy and the British should do something about it. In order to reduce the number of deaths on the Dublin-Belfast road we must have a co-ordinated approach to penalty points on an all-Ireland basis. The British-Irish Interparliamentary Body will bring forward proposals to Government on both sides. I hope it will happen.
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