Anger over road carnage.Byline: By MICHAEL DOYLE
Michael W. Doyle (born 1948) is an international relations scholar whose most influential work is Empires, an analysis of imperialism. SAFETY chiefs have accused the Government of not having the will to stop the carnage on Irish roads. The National Safety Council has criticised the Department of Transport for failing to implement fully its road safety strategy. Chairman Eddie Shaw said Minister Martin Cullen Martin Cullen (Irish: Máirtín Ó Cuilinn; born 2 November, 1954) is a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Waterford since 1987 and is the current Minister for Social & Family Affairs. lacked the "will" to tackle the issue and added: "Frustration is not the word for how I feel about the delay in rolling out the penalty points scheme. "There is no collective Government will to do this. That, in particular, applies to the current Minister for Transport." He added that if the Government had met its road safety pledges PLEDGES, pleading. It was anciently necessary to find pledges or sureties to prosecute a suit, and the names of the pledges were added at the foot of the declaration; but in the course of time it became unnecessary to find such pledges because the plaintiff was no longer liable to be an average of 142 lives would be saved on the roads each year. |
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