Frustration at poorly functioning penalty points system

THERE was a lot of goodwill towards transport minister Seamus Brennan last October when he introduced the long-awaited penalty points system.

Most people agreed radical action was needed to reduce the escalating number of road deaths. Penalty points worked well in Britain, helping to reduce the level of road deaths. However, the problem here is the minister appears to have put the cart before the horse.

The first phase was introduced last October without any computerised system to record the speeding offences or feed them into garda and court services computers.