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:

Obviously we will operate within the legislative framework that exists. The Chairman has asked me a very specific question in terms of what has been said. We can detect a person but what is going to be the consequence of that detection? Let us say a person is detected as driving at a speed of 60 km or 90 km in a 50 km zone then he or she is fined and the penalty is the same. The superintendent talked about this earlier- if the speed is so excessive that it is deemed to be dangerous driving, and again we would have meet the proofs for dangerous driving, there is something about ensuring that as speed increases over the limit then what should be the penalty.

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