Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I move:

That Dáil Éireann,

noting:

—that 323 persons have been killed on our roads in the first ten months of 2005;

—the number of persons killed or seriously injured on our roads in the first ten months of 2005, is now higher than for the same period in 2004;

—that the number of fatalities last month was almost double that for October 2004;

—that the Government is failing to achieve its target of reducing road deaths by 25%; and

—that the Government's failure to put in place the enforcement and legislative measures necessary to reduce road deaths and fatalities is aggravating the level of carnage on our roads;

calls on the Government to:

—implement in full the commitments contained in the National Road Safety Strategy 2004-2006;

—guarantee the complete roll-out of the penalty points system and the achievement of the full complement of the Garda traffic corps as an urgent priority; and

—immediately establish a road safety authority with a dedicated, rolling budget to act as a single agency with statutory responsibility and extensive supervision, decision-making and management powers in relation to road safety.

I propose to share time with a number of my colleagues, the names of whom I do not have to hand.

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