Kerry Counsellor Danny Healy-Rae should have had to look into the eyes a bereaved family member before he tabled his drink driving proposal, writes Christina Donnelly, whose son was killed by a drunk driver in 2009.
Ahead of this weekend’s festivities Gardaà have also released statistics which show 26 people have died on Irish roads during the St Patrick’s Day periods of the past five years.
A coroner in Kerry has said older men in rural areas are becoming more isolated because even one pint can now put them over the limit. Have your say here…
Today’s 9 at 9: Gardaà confirm new sighting of Monica Riordan on day she went missing; bed closures at Tallaght hospital; are drink-driving laws leading to suicides?
The blood alcohol limit for drink-driving will be reduced from 80mg to 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood from this Friday – certain drivers will be tested at an even lower limit of 20mg.
Compulsory driving lessons for secondary students and reminders for drivers about NCT renewal dates are also among the proposals from an Oireachtas committee.
As Oxegen 2011 draws to a close Gardaà reveal that 28 people were arrested at the festival for dealing drugs, while there were 15 incidents of drink driving.
Nine things you need to know this morning: European airports pushing to cut passenger backlog; AIB could be nationalised today; UN to investigate treatment of Bradley Manning; and a Ryanair pilot has reported seeing something in the air over Norway…
SIXTY-EIGHT PER cent of patients are unaware that they can officially complain about their hospital stay.
An Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare survey revealed that although 93 per cent of the patients surveyed were satisfied with the service they received, one in every five wanted to discuss an area of dissatisfaction but a third felt they never had the opportunity to do so.
The aspects of care that patients were most dissatisfied with included emergency department conditions and waiting times and lack of information about hospital routines, tests, medication side effects and after-care.
So today we want to know: Have you ever lodged a complaint about a hospital?
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