The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, at a recent meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council, dealing with cross-Border issues, agreed that the harmonisation of penalty points would be implemented. More legislation on penalty points has been promised once the speed limit review concludes. Is legislation required in relation to the speed limit review? Will the promised penalty points legislation include measures to harmonise penalty points North and South?

I advise Deputy Ellis that we only deal with promised legislation on the Order of Business.

I have just asked a question about promised legislation. We need to deal with the ludicrous situation whereby people who commit driving offences escape punishment both North and South of the Border. It is a ridiculous situation.

The Border was handy for some things.

The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is preparing new road safety legislation and he has been in discussions with his Northern Ireland counterpart about the harmonisation of penalty points.