Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 201: To ask the Minister for Transport his plans to introduce legislation to ban the use by drivers of hand held mobile telephones in cars. [6247/05]

Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Attorney General has advised that the Road Traffic (Construction, Equipment and Use of Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2002, which prohibit the use of a hand-held mobile telephone while driving a vehicle, are open to challenge in the courts on the grounds that they may be ultra vires. In the light of this advice, a legislative framework to address the overall regulatory questions arising from the development of in-car technologies, which would include mobile telephones, is being developed by my Department.