Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 135: To ask the Minister for Transport when he intends to change the licensing regime for learner drivers. [3116/06]

Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 169: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason for the delay in introducing regulations requiring motorcyclists with provisional licences to display L-plates. [3115/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 135 and 169 together.

In line with commitments given in the Road Safety Strategy 2004-2006 it is my intention that a requirement that motorcyclists with provisional licences must display L-plates will be introduced, and that driver licensing regulations will be amended to discourage long-term reliance on provisional licences.

The necessary regulatory provisions are currently under consideration having regard to the need for amendments to the Road Traffic Acts and a recent Supreme Court decision which found that primary legislation underpinning regulations to transpose EU directives must, notwithstanding any powers already contained in the legislation, contain a power to make regulations for the purpose of transposing EU directives.