Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On Deputy Ó Cuív's point, significant data have been compiled by the Road Safety Authority on many of the fatalities and the trends across fatalities. Speed and excess speed are key factors in urban areas in cases where pedestrians or cyclists have lost their lives. The wider review of speed limits is also examining the huge inconsistency between speed limits, as well as excessive speed limits, on certain rural roads. If people travelled at these speeds on our roads, they would be completely unsafe. The review, which will be published shortly, will provide much greater consistency with regard to overall speed limits and the guidance for local authorities on the setting of speed limits. I can ask the Road Safety Authority to send on the specific data and information on this. It is very clear that speed is a central factor and it has those specific data.

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