Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will read what it says on the Government website. It quotes Professor Desmond O'Neill, from the national office for traffic medicine, as stating:

This change [in extending the medical to 75] is welcome in terms of recognising that older drivers are an exceptionally responsible group of drivers. In addition, the change is supported by international research indicating that routine medical screening of older drivers is not only ineffective but may actually unintentionally increase injury and death among older people as pedestrians.

Does that sound like what Mr. Rowland has said?

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