Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Road Safety: Discussion

Ms Sarah O'Connor:

Yes. It is all about the consequences of alcohol. We want to create a new experiential piece all about the consequences of drug-driving and to be able to roll that out early next year.

Then, of course, as I mentioned, there is speed, and it is speed from multiple different angles, whether it will be the campaign around urban speed, which is produced, finished, done and dusted and ready to go out in quarter 1 of next year, or whether it is around speed on an 80 km/h rural road campaign. We are planning on that. We have been discussing the production budget for that with the Department and have had really positive, engaged support across the Minister, the Department and others for that to be ready to go. Then, when we get those campaigns really right, we track them and make sure they are going to the right audience, the right platform, with the right degree of financial support behind them and that they are working. We tweak them as they go, if necessary, and we get a really good shelf life out of them. We get three to five years because they really do work and we make sure they work. That is what guides the work, and we can guarantee that that is what guides us day to day to make sure that when we get investment and funding, it is spent the right way and can really have an impact.

That is touching on just a few of the pieces that are planned.

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