Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for her contribution to this discussion. Safety is at the heart of what we seek to achieve with our investment in transport. It behoves all road users to concentrate, consider all other road users, slow down and be observant. In the wider context of road safety, this is set out in the Government’s fifth road safety strategy, the implementation of which the Road Safety Authority has overall responsibility. On 15 December 2021, the Government and the Road Safety Authority launched Ireland’s road safety strategy for 2021 to 2030, along with the associated action plan for the first phase running from 2021 to 2024. The programme for Government makes a commitment to introduce an ambitious road safety strategy targeting the vision zero principle. We will introduce a road safety strategy focused on reducing death and injuries of vulnerable road users, pedestrians and cyclists.

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