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

I take the wider concern from the Deputy, others and certainly the victims' organisations on the need to improve enforcement. That is something I raise at every meeting I have with An Garda Síochána and senior management in An Garda Síochána. We do need to see enforcement improve and we need to see the numbers in roads policing units improve. I am not dismissing that point. It is an absolute priority for me. If the reforms we are going to progress, along with existing legislation and policy, are going to have a further effect, we need to see strengthening of enforcement from a roads policing and road safety perspective. I am not at all dismissing that as a necessity to address the wider behavioural issues we are seeing on our roads and the culture of recklessness which exists among certain cohorts of drivers.

There needs to be a robust enforcement response and I am absolutely clear about that in all my engagements with An Garda Síochána. I am not dismissing that point.

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