Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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603. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing mandatory on-the-spot fines for cyclists in breach of the rules of the road; and if he will provide that fines may be collected at the time of levying, as in other European countries, including where necessary, escorting the cyclist to the nearest ATM. [40085/14]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Road Safety Strategy (RSS) 2013-2020 contains a commitment to bring road traffic offences by cyclists within the fixed charge notice regime. On a point of information, there are no longer 'on the spot' fines for road traffic offences. The fixed charge notice system replaced on the spot fines under the terms of the Road Traffic Act 2002.

My Department is currently working on the preparation of a new Road Traffic Bill and I intend to include provisions to extend the fixed charge notice system to cycling offences, in line with the commitment in the RSS, in that Bill. I expect to submit the General Scheme of the Bill to Government for its consideration shortly and thereafter to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications for pre-legislative scrutiny.