Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion

Mr. Sam Waide:

A lot of thought has gone into not only this working group but also into the 50 groups that will be recommending and implementing stuff over the next four years. I am not going to get into the detail of what this particular group will do. The key here is delivery. I sit on the road safety partnership board. There has been reference at this meeting to the fact that people want things done quickly. I, of all people, want to deliver stuff. We are here to deliver outcomes. However, it would be remiss of me not to discuss details. Let us get down to brass tacks. All the agencies, including the councils, were part of that partnership submission for a statement of resource. It is new money, above and beyond what was planned big infrastructure. It is an amount of money over the next four years to help deliver some of this transformational, additional stuff we have identified within the strategy. It will be available over a four-year period. For this year, the partnership has been told it is not getting that money. I know the doors of my colleagues in councils and other delivery agencies are always open. Sometimes "No" is a complete sentence.

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