I was worried when I first heard the Minister mention an extension of the law to provide the Garda with powers to demand a breath test that it would take us down the road of a police state. I am not speaking from a liberal view but from the point of view of an ordinary citizen. I did not like the idea of people being stopped on the side of the road and forced to take a breath test. Having read the explanatory memorandum I am happy it is appropriate that people involved in a traffic accident should be required to co-operate with whatever testing the Garda is carrying out. No fair minded person would oppose that. I am not as comfortable with the proposal that a breath test could be demanded for any traffic offence as it could be overdone, for example, where a person has double-parked for a few minutes. The bar should be raised a little higher in that regard. In general terms, so long as it was not a dropping of the barriers, developments of this type had to take place. Nobody will object to what is contained in the Bill and it would be wrong to delay it in any way.