Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I am on the transport committee and the Road Safety Authority came into us. Twenty years ago or more, some work was done to arrive at a metric to justify an upgrade of a road based on the number of fatalities. Every life is precious but a number was arrived at to give some criterion for doing it. It is perfectly possible to direct changes where there is a high level of fatality.