John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 463: To ask the Minister for Transport if, in relation to the new 31 penalty points announced and the one that will incur penalty points on failure to comply with prohibitory traffic signs this new offence includes failure of heavy goods vehicles to comply with three-tonne restriction signs. [6786/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The proposed penalty point offence of failure to comply with prohibitory traffic signs to which the Deputy refers relates to the offences specified in Article 23 of the Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) Regulations 1997, S.I. No. 182 of 1997. Article 23 offences relate to non-compliance with the traffic signs which indicate that traffic must not proceed in the directions indicated by the arrows on the signs, that is traffic must not maintain the same direction, must not turn right or must not turn left.

Provisions for imposition of a weight restriction on vehicles entering a road are set out in Article 17 of these 1997 regulations. The restriction does not apply where it is necessary for a vehicle to enter a road solely for the purpose of gaining access or egress from premises accessible only from that road. The offence of contravening Article 17 is not scheduled in the Road Traffic Act 2002 to be a penalty point offence but it is one of the offences to which I propose to extend the fixed charge system in April.