Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Thankfully, the number of road deaths has gone down owning to myriad factors, including speed cameras and better roads.

We will, however, continue to have deaths because of the state of roads, with trees hanging out over them and falling on people. People are being killed while cycling and walking because roads are not adequate for use by pedestrians late at night. People are also being killed while riding motorcycles. I am still asking the Taoiseach to provide the services he promised. It was supposed to be no trouble at all to provide LocalLink services, but they have not been added to. Even the ones that were promised are not being delivered. That is the truth. The purpose of this question is to see what we are going to do to help people in rural Ireland to get around. They do not have the train, taxi or DART services that are available here. There can be no checkpoints on roads around here. If a garda was to stand there for five minutes, there would be a five-mile tailback. It is very easy to have a checkpoint at a crossroads when people are going to mass on a Sunday morning, but I do not know what the purpose is, or on whose orders it is done. Is it being directed by the Taoiseach, the Minister of Justice and Equality or the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross? I appeal to the Taoiseach to answer this question. It is happening across the boundaries of three counties and in the divisions of different superintendents; therefore, a direction is coming from the top.

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