Rathdown, and was elected. Taoiseach Enda Kenny nominated him as Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in May 2016. His most significant action as minister for transport was the introduction of the Road Traffic Act(2018). The law up to that point had allowed a first-time drink-driver offender, if they were between 50 mg and 80 mg, to opt for a fine and three penalty points instead of disqualification. This option was removed. Another section of the Act made it an offence for the owner of a vehicle to allow an unaccompanied learner driver to use it. In December 2018 Ross announced that the NTA (National Transport Authority) was being tasked with setting up a dedicated National Cycling Office to provide cycling infrastructure. Tourism It had been a demand of Kevin "Boxer" Moran of the Independent Alliance in the Programme for Government that a new tourism brand for the midlands would be launched by the new government. Ross launched the "Ireland's Hidden Heartlands" brand in April 2018. Sport There were two major dramas while Ross held the Sports brief. At the 2016 Olympics in Brazil a story broke alleging the involvement of the Olympic Council of Ireland in a ticket-touting scandal. Pat Hickey, president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, was arrested. Hickey claimed that there was no foundation for the accusation and that an OIC inquiry would show this. He temporarily stepped down from his position. Ross insisted that there had to be a member independent of the OIC on any inquiry; Hickey resisted. The government set up an independent non-statutory inquiry under retired judge Carroll Moran. Hickey and other OIC members refused to give evidence at the tribunal. After the publication of the Moran report the OCI met and voted unanimously not to reinstate Hickey. On 17 March 2019 an article in the Sunday Times reported that John Delaney, head of the Football Association of Ireland for many years, had given a loan of €100,000 to the FAI. Subsequently, it became obvious that the FAI was in serious financial trouble. When the 2018 accounts became available in December 2019, the FAI was shown to have liabilities of €55 million. In an article in the Irish Times, Professor Niamh Brennan, an expert on corporate governance, wrote "The organisation is at death's door. As I see it, only government intervention can save Irish soccer." A tripartite bailout was arranged involving the