Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority

9:30 am

Mr. Michael Rowland:

We have two data sets on injuries. We are aware that serious injury reporting is understated, especially when we look at the Garda data. There are very good reasons for that. With the approval of the Department, we engaged with the Department of Health, the HSE and Trinity College Dublin to look at hospital inpatient inquiry data, which contemplates serious injuries in particular and medical diagnoses of serious injuries, in order that we could report on that. This tells us that many more serious injuries are happening than are actually reported using Garda-----