Sir, - As the carnage on our roads continues with ever more horrific crashes, journalists keep quoting Mr Molloy's intention of reducing road deaths by 20 per cent by 2002 (Declan Fahy, The Irish Times, February 8th).
Is this not every bit as cynical as Mr Maudling's infamous remark, when he was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, about "an acceptable level of violence", particularly as Mr Molloy belongs to a Government whose Minister for Justice proclaims "zero tolerance" for crime?
It is sickening to hear the Minister of State blame the failure to introduce the penalty points system first mooted in 1998 on inadequate information technology for the project. What kind of gobbledygook is this? Can this be the same almighty Government that is currently telling the rest of the EU to get lost? How come the technology is in place to call in all cars of a certain age for NCT or clamp cars over weekends on quiet side streets?
No, Mr Molloy, these facesaving excuses are not credible. There is a clear failure of will on your and the Government's part. Life on our roads is very cheap indeed. - Yours, etc.,
Cecilia McGovern, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.