Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising the issue, particularly on national slow down day. I do not have an up-to-date position on where the working group is at. I will talk to the Minister about the Deputy having raised this issue and will ask him to come back to her directly on both issues, namely, the technology and the working group. We are losing too many lives on the road. We changed the dial significantly in the past, particularly in the early 2000s when significant legislation was introduced, against a lot of opposition in the House and so on. It was the then Minister, Noel Dempsey, who led the way with the late Gay Byrne, who was the chair of the Road Safety Authority. They just went ahead and did it against a lot of political opposition and all of that, but it led to a significant reduction in road deaths, as did the investment in motorways, better roads and so on.

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