Marie Moloney (Labour)

More penalty points were recently introduced for 16 further road traffic offences. Will the Leader get clarification from the Minister on the penalty point for failure to ensure a proper view from a vehicle windscreen? It strikes me as an urban-based decision. A car with a Dublin registration is more valuable than a rural-registered car because it does not have to encounter potholes full of water or spray-back from tractors after spreading slurry or lorries carrying gravel and sand. What constitutes a dirty windscreen or failure to keep it clean? Is it the area the wipers cover or the whole windscreen? Is it having no water to spray-clean the windscreen? Will it be at the discretion of the garda who stops one? If he has had a bad day, will one get penalty points? I will be off the road soon enough in any case because my car is covered in spray-back dirt from driving from Kerry to Dublin. Will the Leader get clarification from either the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Minister Transport, Tourism and Sport on the how they will implement these penalty points which are causing some concern among people?