Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Mr. Michael Finn:

Feet on the ground and smarter enforcement from our perspective. I now have two analysts working in our traffic department full time to make sure that what we do targets the right locations at the right times using the data we share with the Road Safety Authority and the data from our own figures. That helps to make sure that when we are out there, we are doing the right thing in the right place. In the past, we were not as scientific in terms of how we did our business but now we can be. We have hotspots and mapping in order that when our resources go out every day to every district, we know where the hotspots are and what times and locations are the most likely to see drink-driving based on our evidence. With a combination of better resources and better technology, I think we will have better outcomes. That is what we are focusing on.

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