Ms Paula Hilman:

Certainly, yes. Under one of the actions in the Government road safety strategy, the NTA is looking at that and is leading on that project in terms of working on traffic signs, bus lanes and so forth. It is currently bringing that back to the partnership board. As the Commissioner said, it should be automated but we have offered to take on the back office function as part of a partnership approach. Everything we have outlined so far will be managed within An Garda Síochána. We manage all the back office functions. There is some partnership activity with local authorities about camera sites, but the actual management of the files and the fixed charge notices will be done internally. We have offered in the short term to get it up and running by assisting with the processing of tickets. In the longer term, we would like that to be automated but we do not want to wait for that because people are being killed on the roads. We have offered up the use of our current back office function at the fixed-charge penalty office in Thurles. We will take that work on until we get to where we want to go.

Recently we were approached by Irish Rail. We are collaborating with Irish Rail on a pilot in four locations for both speeding and breach of traffic lights at railway crossings. The Minister, Deputy Ryan, recently made an announcement on red light running cameras in Dublin. The NTA is working on that. To get it up and running quickly, if we can assist as a partner in this, we will.