Our View: Let’s abolish alcohol and drug tests and traffic cameras next

Our political parties never cease to amaze us. On Thursday they voted through a bill proposal that would increase the number of penalty points needed for the suspension of someone’s licence from the current 12 to 16. This idiotic change of the law will come into effect from February 1, so any driver who has accumulated 12 penalty points before then will have their licence temporarily taken away from them.

It is astonishing that in a year in which the number of road deaths are on the rise compared to the previous year...