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Tue 09 Sep 2007Paisley seeks joint driving-ban strategyThe Rev Ian Paisley today called for authorities in the United Kingdom and Republic to be able to ban drivers who commit motoring offences in other parts of the two islands.During a briefing to the Northern Ireland Assembly on July's British-Irish Council summit meeting in Belfast, the First Minister said he hoped there would be progress soon on the administrations recognising motoring offences in each other's jurisdictions.