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

Section 81 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 provides for the use of cameras by the Garda to assist in the detection of certain offences. The powers have been used by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, working with the Garda. It is open to road authorities to use these powers on a similar basis for other offences. As part of our wider camera-based enforcement strategy, we want to have many more locations in urban and other areas. In particular, given our investment in public transport infrastructure, we want to ensure there is much greater compliance for public transport but also for those who are constantly breaching the law when it comes to bus lanes and other breaches of our road traffic legislation.

On the collision data, significant road safety interventions continue to be funded by the Department with key agencies.

There is ongoing engagement with and a submission being made to the Data Protection Commissioner to ensure we can find progress on the data issues the Deputy referred to. We are committed to addressing these obstacles and we are working with An Garda Síochána and the Road Safety Authority, RSA, to ensure there is compliance in the context of the GDPR issues highlighted.

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