Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty here is that we do not believe that the projects you are putting forward are actually working and delivering. In The Irish Timesthis week we have seen a report that the Department of Transport wrote to the RSA in 2023 and asked for a plan in regard to enhanced road safety. It came back with that plan and the RSA looked for funding of €6 million to roll it out. The Department of Transport said no, we are not going to do that. Unless we back these things up with actual funding to deliver them, there is no point in talking about them. We have all of this talk of reduced speed limits and all of that, which may be very worthy and I am sure in many cases are the logical thing to do, but the biggest problem we have got is enforcement. If we do not enhance enforcement, we cannot keep bringing in new laws and nothing there to make people abide by them. In September in the Irish ExaminerConor Faughnan, the CEO of Royal Irish Automobile Club, said that the most important thing is enforcement. That is identified internationally yet the Government continues to fail on it.

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