Pat Moylan (Fianna Fail)

I ask the Leader to request the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to take urgent action against persons who drive uninsured and untaxed motor vehicles. At present when the Garda stop such uninsured and untaxed drivers and impound the vehicles, it finds the people concerned call at the pound with a car transporter and remove the car that night or the next day. They drop the car on the road outside the pound and drive away. The law must be changed which allows them to get those vehicles back on the road so easily. In some cases the Garda has taken in the same vehicles on three or four occasions but they are still on the road.

I agree with those Senators who raised the question of driving tests. One wonders if what was on the radio this morning is for real regarding drivers having to be mechanics as well as drivers. The concern should be focused on a person's ability to drive a car and behave safely on the road.