Ms Paula Hilman:

I thank the Deputy for his support when he says he encourages people to please report this to An Garda Síochána. That is exactly what we want.

I have been listening to what the Deputy has been saying about the near misses specifically in relation to cyclists. Under the road safety strategy there is an action about the online reporting portal. We are working towards this. We are supportive of that. It will be dependent on legislation and the financing of an IT strategy. We looked at international best practice in this area. We still need the person to report the matter to us. It will not be a matter of someone uploading a video from a dashcam or camera. It needs to be followed up with a report. The person will get a link and then we will investigate. It is important for managing expectations that people understand that even when we get through the financing and legislation in this area, it still will not be a matter of a report to An Garda Síochána. They will get a link to upload their footage. In the intervening period ahead of that, we were asked what we can do differently now, because 85 people were tragically killed on our roads. What can we do in the here and now? We are going to reinvigorate our traffic-watch process. Over recent years the reports of our traffic watch have declined. In quarter three we will do some media around this to reinvigorate that. We are going to align that. We have our regional control centres. We are now going to be doing the reports in a different way internally so that we can manage this. The reports will come through to the control centres. This means that if something in live time that we potentially need to look at, for example, a person whose driving is erratic or who is a potentially drink or drug driver, it can be dealt with in live time, or we can have a follow up-----