Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a mix of technology and policy, and whether we can get policy to follow technology or to use the new technology. I was a councillor and was the chair of the transport special policy committee in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, which is five miles wide and eight miles long and has a significant population living in a built-up urban area. I cannot count the number of times we got requests for ramps everywhere. If we could take out the ramps or not have to spend a fortune putting in ramps and, instead, as the car turns off the main road or off a side road it has to be brought to a certain speed, we would not need to repair ramps and we would not have trouble with car suspensions and people getting their lights set before the NCT because every time they go over a ramp, it knocks them out. There is so much technology but we are way behind. Has the RSA ideas that it could bring to us, as legislators, and that it wants us to implement so that every new car has this technology? It is all very well saying a car cannot go past 120 km/h but, equally, as it drives into a town and it hits a 30 km/h limit, it should be forced to slow down to that speed. Can we do that?