Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Earlier on Mr. Waide said that he gets really frustrated at the lack of technology available to the RSA, An Garda Síochána and the Department. Yet, when opportunities arise for the use of that, the RSA is stony silent. Assistant Garda commissioner, Paula Hillman, sat in a room close to this on 4 October 2023 and told us that a dashcam portal system would go live in 2024. We are halfway through 2024 and it is patently obvious it is not going to happen. The RSA is utterly silent on that. We had a red light camera system in Dublin a couple of years ago. In the short time it was operational 1,300 car drivers were fined. They were switched off. The RSA was absolutely silent. The fact is that the RSA is not out there every day advocating for safer roads. It is not the trustworthy and reputable voice we turn to and need, unsullied by all other influences to ensure, when our children, parents, brothers and sisters leave home every morning, that Irish roads are as safe as they possibly can be. That is the fundamental issue. Active travel infrastructure is a way to separate the most vulnerable road users from cars, the very things that kill them. The RSA was silent. The RSA is silent whenever the issue arises, as it has arisen recently in my city of Galway, and in Dublin and Cork. There was a significant public debate covered extensively in the national press on the huge advantages for road safety of a development of a raft of active travel infrastructure. The RSA was utterly silent. We are not hearing it. Does Mr. Waide agree?