Tony Toner
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the demand subsequently, if it's necessary, of blood or urine should not be available.
All of those are
governed by the strictest of protocols.
I know it's available in some.
You know, anything that prevents somebody going out
and in particular the morning after.
The alcohol limits here, David, as you're aware, have been dropped over the last sort of 10 years.
It's 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.
And if you're a professional driver, the likes of, dare I say, Paddy and myself, the white van man, the truck driver, the bus driver, the chauffeur, they're 20...
milligrams, the same as a learner driver.
Now, 20 milligrams is the spoon of your mother's sherry trifle.
It's nothing.
You're in big, big bother.
And the subsequent fines are horrendous and they can cause severe threat to your employment.
In my time when I was operational, I certainly seen marriages destroyed over it, families destroyed.
Aside from the damage they do if they interact with another road user, when it comes back to the driver themselves, their lives are never the same.
And it is an attitudinal thing, David.
We really have to get our head together here and say no.
And we do need more referees on the pitch.
There's no question.