Michael Finucane (Fine Gael)

I want to ask a question in that context. Regrettably, over the past few months, road deaths have risen compared to the same period last year. Anyone driving to Dublin at 60 mph will see other vehicles zooming past. There appears to be an absence of gardaí to enforce speed limits. In the past, we were promised that a traffic corps would be introduced. Two weeks ago the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Michael McDowell, said it was not possible to have such a corps due to legal difficulties. In an article in the current Automobile Association's magazine, the Taoiseach states that we will have a traffic corps, and that the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform will tease out the legal aspects.

Will the relevant Minister attend the House to address the two specific questions of whether we will have a traffic corps and, if so, when it will be in operation?