Mr. Sam Waide:

I will answer the first part of the question. The RSA absolutely has a role to play. In all forms of mobility and segregation of mobility, whether it is pedestrians, e-scooters, cyclists, cars or whatever it may be, we provide research on an ongoing basis to the agencies, including Ministers and the Minister for Transport. We have an ongoing role to play in providing that research and the evidence base for those interventions. The Deputy is correct that we are a national organisation. We do and are willing to play a more active role where we are invited and where we participate in that wider active travel. Some of that research has informed those pedestrian lanes.

I will circle back to the point made regarding An Garda Síochána and the average speed cameras. I am familiar with the technology and camera company helping with that pathfinder project in Devon and Cornwall. I agree with the Deputy that it is a very successful project. They are using mobile average speed cameras, which are deployed in Devon and Cornwall in a terrain very similar to parts of Ireland, where there is not the ability or opportunity to construct gantry-style motorway average speed cameras. There is, however, the ability to use those mobile average speed cameras on rural roads where there are collision hotspots, and outside schools and community clubs where there is a road safety problem. I advocate that as a solution. I attended this committee three years ago and have always advocated the use of that technology, as I did more recently. Average speed cameras are not the only answer but they are quite an effective way of monitoring traffic and changing behaviour for the better. I would welcome the committee's support in engaging with whomever to encourage identifying investment to accelerate that particular intervention in 2024