Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion

Ms Paula Hilman:

We have seen many of our detections, in terms of the lifesaver offences that we talked about, which are speeding, drink- and drug-driving, inattention, mobile phone use and seat-belt use. They are similar to pre Covid. Where we saw the difference was during Covid, which was a significant increase in drug-driving detections rather than drink-driving. Drink-driving increased again as we moved out of the Covid restrictions and the number of detections in that regard has also increased. The drink-driving detections are on a par with where we were previously, but the number of drug-driving detections has increased.

That is one of the areas that has changed.

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