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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...is at 19 deaths per month for this year. It is also important to acknowledge that more than 300 people have been seriously injured in road traffic collisions. While it is not yet possible for An Garda Síochána to confirm the primary contributing factors to fatal collisions in 2024, our data shows 25% of fatalities occurred between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., while 36% occurred late at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...volume has increased. The number of cars has increased and since the pandemic, the volume of traffic has increased a lot but I am talking about the 185 fatalities of last year. The coroner and An Garda Síochána have investigated these particular fatalities. What did they identify as the main cause? Was it speeding, drugs or alcohol? Was it a combination? What historical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...can apply under a location of interest safety scheme and 55 did last year. There are 60 schemes this year. In the coming weeks, the RSA will be working with other agencies, including An Garda Síochána, on a submission to the Data Protection Commissioner, DPC, regarding legislation. What is the gap between what is happening on data sharing now and what is needed in legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...the committee that the RSA completely and absolutely supports that technology and its implementation in Ireland. If legislative changes are required, and my understanding is there are, although An Garda Síochána and the Department of Justice are probably better placed to answer that, the RSA's view is that we should accelerate the technology that detects mobile phone use. Such...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: I hear something different from the RSA. Are the witnesses saying they want to see every available opportunity taken whereby the maximum number of Garda resources are available to road policing and that it needs to happen as soon as possible?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...we need to increase the enforcement of road policing, particularly in this scenario. We need to double up on all of the efforts, including enforcement. It is not for the RSA or me to tell An Garda Síochána or the Commissioner how to operationalise increased enforcement, whether through Garda numbers or technology. We welcome the proposals. With regard to the particular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Róisín Garvey: ...to have them here and to have an opportunity to speak. There have been reports in recent months about the level of road traffic injuries being underestimated, given that analysis was being done on Garda records of collisions only. There have been recent reports that the RSA has completed research from both Garda and hospital records that demonstrates just how much worse the situation is....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...two years. Trinity College Dublin and ourselves have a public health researcher looking at the HIPE data that gives us insights into clinical outcomes of serious injuries. The data set from the Garda is distinct, as it looks at what happened, when it occurred, what the elements of the collision were, the time of day, the type of road, etc., whereas the clinical data we get from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...place. It is quite fixated about fifth and sixth class in primary school at the moment but the equivalent part of its programme is to roll out a cycling programme for transition year. We met the Garda yesterday to see if there is something it can do to plug that gap, and it is something we can explore. On the Senator's point about modal shift, we have a new communications strategy....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...to clarify, we in the Road Safety Authority are not engineers but Transport Infrastructure Ireland, under the European road infrastructure safety management, RISM, directive downloads data from the Garda on collisions that occur. It has high-collision locations, which were formerly known as black spots, and analyses data based on three years of analysis of collision data on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...own enforcement officers, who are on the road day and night, and in the first quarter of this year, they have carried out more than 4,000 inspections of commercial vehicles in conjunction with An Garda Síochána. They will carry out in the region of 18,000 inspections over the full year and these are inspections where the driver is pulled over to the roadside. Complementing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...the biggest impact on offending and on people breaking the rules of the road, etc, is mentioned in the RSA's report. That is one of the key issues all of us have been talking about. The level of Garda enforcement is also one of the key issues. While I understand the GoSafe vans have a role to play, we have become too dependent on them as the main factor in detecting speeding, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: ...them surrender their licences. I am not as concerned as to whether they surrender the plastic card but we seem to keep finding people on the roads who are driving without permission to drive. An Garda Síochána's X, formerly Twitter, account seems to keep posting about how a car driving erratically was pulled in and it had no tax, NCT or driver's licence and the driver had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Mr. Brendan Walsh: The RSA provides information into the national vehicle driver file. Assistant commissioner Hilman recently referenced the Garda's wider mobility strategy. Currently gardaí have a personal digital assistant, PDA, handheld device that when they pull a person over they put his or her details in. My understanding is there are 300 of those PDAs operating today but by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. Walsh think it is a power the RSA would maybe like to have? If somebody breaks a red light or is speeding, the RSA can do nothing about it. The authority can ask An Garda Síochána to do something about it and can ask the local authorities to install red light cameras but it cannot install them. That is where I see the disconnect in that we want the RSA to make roads...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

...approach. We are not responsible for it, but we support it. My understanding is that it is a culmination of the city councils is working with the NTA. There is also an enforcement piece from An Garda Síochána but there is also a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Gerry Horkan: In terms of the drivers, every garda will have this technology and they will be able to call up the information more quickly. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Mr. Sam Waide: Yes, An Garda Síochána, confiscates vehicles. On the point about the licence and disqualified drivers, the Courts Service, which sits on the partnership board, plays an important role in this. An Garda Síochána and the RSA exchange information on individuals licences, and the Courts Service plays an important role. If someone is disqualified or has...