Mr. Keith Walsh:

As Mr. Waide said, a ministerial order was signed last week that permits the Road Safety Authority to receive data from the Garda on collisions. The Garda collects that information and shares it with the Road Safety Authority. That ministerial order will also allow the Road Safety Authority to share the collisions data to local authorities. However, another piece of legislation is required to allow local authorities to receive and process that information in accordance with GDPR. For the final piece to allow the local authorities do that, we need to make a change to the Roads Act 1993. We are very keen to bring this forward as quickly as possible. We will bring a proposal to our Ministers to bring a memo to Government to start drafting that legislation. It will be a short and targeted Bill that we hope will be passed as quickly as possible by the Oireachtas.