The Taoiseach will be aware that the number of people killed on our roads this year, for the first time in ten years, has seen a steady increase. This is very worrying, as the Taoiseach will admit, and the chairman of the Road Safety Authority has made his views known on that publicly in his condemnation of the way in which the Minister for Justice and Equality has engaged in regard to his role in that.

Thank you, Deputy.

In that context, when does the Government intend to bring forward the road traffic (No. 3) Bill, which deals with the mutual recognition of penalty points, North and South?

That will be early next year. There were quite a deal of complications about getting that sort of agreement. It is obviously something that was raised on many occasions where offences occurred on either side. It will be next year.