Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Mr. Peter Walsh:
We will. Regarding the projects, we do two road safety exercises, one of which is reactive while the other is proactive. The reactive one is where we gather the information around collisions and we share that with the relevant roads authority. We give Tipperary County Council statistics annually relating to collisions on the national road network. If that junction was showing up as an accident cluster, it would then be a matter for the roads authority and Tipperary County Council to raise and develop a proposal as to how to address it. We would adjudicate on it. We would review it and if it was thought to suitable, fund it and progress from there. The other exercise is where we inspect the roads and, from those inspections, raise areas of concern. Again, it goes back to the roads authority, which will tell us whether it feels an intervention is warranted and what that might be. We work closely in partnership with the local authorities.
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