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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Common sense would dictate that there is something, apart from the fact that it is Bus Éireann’s policy, which is a Department of Transport issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: You can fudge away but the reality here is that we could have two bus drivers taking 110 children to school or we can have 100 cars on the road. Mr. Waide’s objective should be the two bus drivers. It is not up to me to come up with a solution. Mr. Waide is being paid the big salary as the chief executive of the RSA to reduce road deaths. Primary to that is putting in a modal...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Your review will take far too long. This subject has been on the cards for ten years. It is Mr. Waide’s first time before the committee in five years. I have written to the Road Safety Authority several times but I have never gotten a response, email-wise-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: They are different matters. I referred to you.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Do I have the incorrect details? How many emails did you personally receive from me?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Well, that is fine. I will forward them to you again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: As far as I am concerned, I have the details, but I certainly have not received a response, but I will take that. That could be a simple IT issue.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: This has been extended to the age of 75. I am fully aware of that. What I am saying is that the compulsory medical has been extended. It has gone from the age of 75 from 70.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: We are not talking about that. We are talking about the age of 70 here now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Drivers of commercial vehicles who are over the age of 70 would require a medical annually. It is now extended so that it must happen annually, when one is aged 75, then turns 76, then 77, etc. That is the point I am making.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Well, that is what the legislation says. It has increased to 75 years of age.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: I ask the witness to submit that in writing so that we can check the legislation again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: The other question I have regarding road safety is about the IRHA, which is the only licensed representative organisation for HGVs in the country. How many times has Ms O'Connor or the RSA met with it as stakeholders?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: No, how many times have you met with the Irish Road Haulage Association for engagement on your advertisements, programmes, marketing, etc.?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: You have never met with it. It is the only representative organisation in the country and you have never met with it to engage on how operators of articulated vehicles and HGVs operate on our roads here in Ireland. Did Ms O'Connor not say that she is putting the campaigns together?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: This is not a matter of driving for work. This is road safety.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: How long has Ms O'Connor been in the role?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: How many times has Mr. Waide met the Irish Road Haulage Association?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Verona Murphy: Who was the president at the time?