The Minister for Transport, Deputy Brennan, will publish a new road safety strategy programme in the next few weeks. As part of the existing road safety strategy, he has introduced penalty points for speeding offences, lack of insurance and not wearing seat belts. Initial indications are that these are having a very positive effect. Ensuring that the penalty points system will result in reduced costs for non-offending motorists is central to the discussions between the Minister and the insurance companies about access to penalty points data.