Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

I will not repeat what I said during this debate or the debate earlier in the week. The House has done very good work today. Road safety has been one of the big success stories of the past ten years with road deaths falling from more than 400 deaths a year ten years ago to, hopefully, fewer than 200 this year. That has happened for a number of reasons, one being a crackdown on drink driving in particular. The work that has been done by the House this week will allow us, hopefully in the next few weeks, either at the October bank holiday or a little later, to implement these new limits and breath tests, and based on what has occurred in other counties, to reduce the number of fatal collisions by, perhaps, 10%. We could potentially today, having done this work, save 15 or 20 lives next year and every year thereafter. I thank Senators for their co-operation in doing that.