Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is welcome that 6,400 housing estates have implemented signage for slow zones. I note the remarks the Minister made about 20 km/h speed limits but I am not sure that it is valid that we should not have scope for 20 km/h or 25 km/h speed limits.

I obtained figures from the Courts Service recently and they show that, in 2017, almost 26,500 speeding offences were prosecuted in the courts, of which 6,634 resulted in convictions. Similarly, in 2018, almost 23,000 speeding offences were prosecuted in the courts, of which 4,245 resulted in convictions. So far this year, almost 10,000 speeding offences have been prosecuted, so it is clear that speeding remains a serious problem.

Deputy Durkan probably remembers the debates we had in the Chamber with the former Deputy, Seamus Brennan, when he was Minister. Is it not time we went back to the 2004 Act, looked at the range of speed limits from the slow zones up to the 120 km/h zones and carried out a total review of them to give us a procedure to ensure we have much safer roads?

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