Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

I join other Senators in calling for a debate on yesterday's NRA report, particularly on speed limits. We have debated drink driving and dangerous driving many times but this time, if we concentrate on speed limits, we might achieve something.

Following on the point made by Senator Finucane on the high percentage of Northern drivers, as someone living in the north west in a Border region, I know first hand how Northern drivers flaunt the law. It is as if they are giving two fingers to people in this jurisdiction. They drive at unmercifully high speed in a dangerous and reckless fashion. I have raised this at the British-Irish Interparliamentary Body and I raised it again two weeks ago in this House. I hope the issue will be raised in Killarney at Easter because now is an opportune time. It would not take much to bring them within the legislative framework of this jurisdiction.