I agree with speed limits but not all of them. Speed limits on our roads were brought down to 60 km/h on a blanket basis. I do not agree with that. Some roads are 6 m or 7 m wide on areas that are down to 60 km/h. Then there are roads ou could not park a car on, and they are also at 60 km/h. I would have loved them to leave speed limits with local authorities. They know where accidents happen or where there can be free-flowing traffic. Creating this blanket 60 km/h speed limit causes congestion where people could be driving at safer distances over a longer period. Another thing I do not agree with is people coming into this country being able to hold their licence for six months before they change it for an Irish licence. We have 1 million extra people in this country. The number of accidents is getting higher. I am not blaming all the people coming into this country but when people come from another country, their driving pattern is very different. I was in Rome recently. My God. I did not find one person on their phone but their driving behaviour was very different from the behaviour here. It was in and out, in and out. Not one person walked out in front of a car or truck saying, “Oh look at me, I am on my phone” because they have personal responsibility. Here, it has gone the other way around. There is no personal responsibility for a person walking or doing anything. You should be seen on the road. Everyone should have responsibility, whether they are driving a car, walking on the road or cycling. Everyone has personal responsibility but they should take into account the different widths of the road so that we have a reasonable speed limit on them rather than having a blanket limit and then not even paying local authorities for the repair of the roads.

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