Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 492: To ask the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 4 April 2006 and in view of the practical difficulties caused to people from outside the State who bring such vehicles into Ireland who may not be familiar with our speed limits, his views on efforts being made at the ports and points of entry into the country to notify drivers of such vehicles of the speed limits that relate to their vehicles on public roadways and motorways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14675/06]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As indicated in Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 4 April 2006, ordinary speed limits have applied to specified classes of vehicles in this country since 1961. A similar system of separate vehicle related speed limits applies in other EU countries and elsewhere in the world. Drivers from here who go abroad or drivers from abroad who come here, are obliged to familiarise themselves with the legal speed limit regime that applies to roads and vehicles in whatever jurisdiction they propose to drive in.

It has not been the practice to provide information signs on exit roads from ports or other points of entry concerning the speed limits that apply here to specified classes of vehicles.