In shocking new figures released by gardai, a total of 8 cars a DAY have been seized by the gardai in relation to the new L-Driver laws.
That laws state that L-Drivers must be accompanied by full-time licence holders while they’re driving the car.
But one TD has the guts to say it like it is and call out how unfair it is, in particular on first-time drivers.
Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae told Sean O’Rourke on RTE Radio One: “We all have one common purpose in this whole debate. Of course we don’t want to see any family lose a family member or a loved relative.
“But what our legislators did when they brought in this amendment, they criminalised the young people in rural areas particularly.
“It’s not a culture, it’s a thing called bare, basic necessity.
“You are on a waiting list to have a driving test carried out and it would be far more to be campaigning to ensure that when someone wants to be tested that they can do so.
“What this is doing now is it’s criminalising young people. It’s totally unfair.
“Many of the people who voted for this legislation have freely admitted to me ‘Oh sure we did it ourselves’.
“So everybody is young and everybody has to start somewhere. Some of the TDs who voted for this legislation, they drove cars themselves unaccompanied because they had no choice either.”
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