Call for driving instruction to be compulsory in schools

DRIVING instruction should be compulsory in schools to make Irish roads safer, a cross-party committee of politicians has said.

The committee also wants provisional licence-holders made to take a full driving test within a specific period and called for parking fines to be halved if paid within 14 days.

Penalty points must also be imposed on the last registered owners of illegally-dumped cars, the Oireachtas committee suggested to Transport Minister Leo Varadkar in its submission on new road traffic laws.