Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
General Scheme of Road Traffic Bill 2015: Discussion (Resumed)
12:00 pm
Mr. John Twomey:
If we can, that would be fine.
In response to Deputy Healy-Rae, earlier we discussed the important role that alcolocks can play in this area. Other members made the point about the introduction of alcolocks and not retrofitting them. That point was well made. To repeat what I stated at an earlier point, this is all about road safety and trying to make the roads safer. The point made earlier that 50 fatalities on our roads to date in 2015 is too high a number is correct. We must continue to increase our efforts to improve road safety and reduce road deaths. There are many ways of doing so, not only enforcement. From an enforcement perspective, our work continues. It also continues, working with the other agencies to see what we can do in partnership.
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