Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I fully understand the passion with which the Deputies have described the problems on their roads and I share that worry. It would be my wish and the wish of anybody in government who is committed to road safety to address any issues of this sort all around the country. I have not seen this road and at some stage I would be happy to see it but I take the word of the Deputies that it is dangerous because there are issues of danger throughout Ireland on the extraordinarily large number of roads that we have.

TII runs the schemes which I have described and it identifies a certain number every year which are priorities. The Deputies rightly say that nowhere can be prioritised because by leaving anywhere unattended, lives are being risked and that is true. Putting a motorcar on the road is risking lives.

I have not seen figures because the Deputies did not produce them in this debate which disappointed me. If they could produce for me figures for accidents, collisions, dangers and incidents that have happened on this particular stretch of road to which they refer, I will ask TII to look at it, but it has to be backed up with figures, facts, incidents and events for this to happen.

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