Ms Paula Hilman:

There are rural and urban areas and a very similar population. A large group of us are going over to Scotland next month with representatives of the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Transport. How it works there is that there is a government strategy that the police then operationalise with cameras. We have had a presentation from TII about having the average speed for longer distances across the country. Again, we had a very healthy debate earlier about the role of An Garda Síochána and enforcement but we could see that where we have the average speed cameras, it slowed people down. The motorways are some of our safest roads. It is right to explain why that particular area was chosen. That was a section of motorway where there were a lot of collisions because of hailstones. Where it is geographically causes a lot of weather conditions and collisions happen. That is why that particular area was chosen. We see it in the Dublin Port tunnel as well where the compliance is even higher at about 98%. Where we have the two average speeds, we see that and that is something that really could be helpful. Also if the cameras were spread out over longer distances as well, it would be helpful because then it slows people down.