Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Road Safety: Discussion
Mr. Thomas Murphy:
I was involved in the pilot for the red light running. It was a multi-agency pilot scheme to test and see what it was possible to do. To move it on as part of the road safety strategy, the NTA has taken that. I am involved with looking at it. As the assistant commissioner has already said, there is bus lane enforcement and parking on footpaths and so on. It is about rolling that out. At the moment, we are just looking to see what legislative tweaks we need to allow the NTA to prosecute on its own behalf rather than relying on An Garda Síochána to do it. That is sort of the modernisation of that system. We are working forward on that as part of the road safety strategy. Where we are today is an expansion of what we learned from the red light running system.
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