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Thu 05 May 2008Confusion over cutting alcohol limit
THERE IS some confusion over the timing of plans to lower the legal blood-alcohol level for drivers following seemingly contradictory statements from Tánaiste Brian Cowen and the Department of Transport yesterday.
Mr Cowen, speaking in the Dáil yesterday, said the Government had given the issue of lowering the blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) limit from 80mg to 50mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood “no decision or consideration”, adding that it was at an early stage of its deliberations on the matter.
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