Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I started driving 20 years ago, at a time when there was a significant and very visible road safety campaign. The late Gay Byrne led the charge in terms of being front of house. Road death numbers were up at approximately 400 or 500 year on year but then there was a downward trend. I do not have the figures in front of me but I looked at them in advance of the meeting last week. Ultimately, they came down to the levels we were seeing in the past five years, but now we see a trend where they are moving back up. What measures were successful collectively in bringing the numbers down, in what seemed like a big drop, to where they have been in the past five years? What can be learned from that period? I invite Professor Cusack to respond first, to be followed by Mr. Waide.