Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority

Photo of Gerry HorkanGerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to cut across Mr. Waide but I am conscious of time. All those points are very valid. It is very obvious that the volume has increased. The number of cars has increased and since the pandemic, the volume of traffic has increased a lot but I am talking about the 185 fatalities of last year. The coroner and An Garda Síochána have investigated these particular fatalities. What did they identify as the main cause? Was it speeding, drugs or alcohol? Was it a combination? What historical data has identified particular things? What did it show? I attended the road safety conference and it was very good. We know about psychology and that people are breaking red lights and are generally more casual than they might have been historically. Perhaps it is due to a lack of enforcement. We can see the Garda numbers in roads and policing are down 40%. That is in the RSA briefing document. Of the 185 deaths, what caused them?

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