Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is all right. I appreciate that there are works going on in Dunkettle that require very strong public safety messages, traffic calming and speed management. I understand that. Coming out of the tunnel and heading towards Blackrock, Rochestown and Mahon Point, there is a temporary speed sign and a construction sign but there is no construction heading westbound. Those types of measures undermine the strategy of slowing and controlling speed. As you head further westbound towards the Bishopstown Court roundabout, heading beyond the dog track towards Ballincollig, there is occasionally a member of An Garda Síochána on that road operating a handheld camera and checking speeding from a motorbike on the side of the hard shoulder, which is very dangerous. I have made the point at this committee. It is shooting fish in a barrel on the motorway and on the N40 heading in both directions. I could leave my house and by the time I get to Fermoy I could have encountered four checks - either a speed van or Garda - yet I can travel some of the national routes, which in my opinion as layperson are far more dangerous, with no effective speed controls. That is just my observation.