Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Senator is right that it was those sorts of political decisions by those like the former Minister, Seamus Brennan, God rest his soul, and others that have seen such huge progress. There is provision in law for average speeds, as the Senator said, and it applies in the port tunnel. My understanding is the Road Safety Authority is keen and we will be looking at further applications of that to improve behaviour and get speeds working properly. There is a wider review of speed limits and a range of different ways we need to consider as part of a revolution in our road safety process, including speed limits in suburban and urban areas, such as the rolling out of the 30 km/h speed limit system and how we manage that. There are a variety of different innovations coming and technology will help us in that, including the use of cameras for the average speed limit. That exists within law and it is just a matter of us rolling it out and funding the cameras and other technology to back it up.