Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance

9:30 am

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My understanding is that those averaging speed cameras are coming into the port tunnel quite shortly. Those types of operational issues for the Garda Síochána did not and do not come under my remit. We did have contact with the Garda Síochána through the representatives from the Department of Justice and Equality on the committee. There are representatives from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport on my working group as well, of course. However, I had to keep my focus as much as I could on the insurance aspect of this. Things like the Garda resources or how they are deployed were not matters that came before my working group. We have five action points under objective No. 6. They involve small things that might help to promote road safety and reduce collisions. The types of issues that the Senator speaks to are really matters for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport or the Department of Justice and Equality.

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