Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion
Ms Paula Hilman:
As outlined, our experience and what we have seen from working with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, to introduce those average speed cameras is that people change behaviours. The vast majority comply. Technology is one of the four areas, and I know Dublin Bus told the committee about this earlier, where, as well as enforcement, either by An Garda Síochána or by local authority parking wardens, it can play a role if people know they are going to be detected doing something. We will not have a garda in every street, on every road 24 hours a day, but we know the high-risk areas where we can target operations, and we do that. That is where there is a good opportunity for the use of technology. If we had technology on buses, it would be able to record where a car is parked and a process introduced where it can be used for enforcement against that type of offending.
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