Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would like to respond because as I said, we are not opposed to a penalty points system. The Minister makes the comparison with the road traffic penalty points system, but my understanding is that if you appeal the penalty points in the court, you are allowed to have those penalty points quashed, whereas when we get to amendment No. 6, the right to allow the innocent to clear his or her name, you are not able to clear your name. In comparing it to the driver penalty points system, it is a penalty points system in that the threshold is lower than it would be in a court case. However, when it comes to a person clearing his or her name, it appears that is where the comparison stops. Therefore I will push amendment No. 1.