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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: What about cyclists?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Are they generally younger people?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Three quarters, therefore, were over the age of 25.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: That figure would not be the same for the entire driver base.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It is a much higher percentage, therefore, for that cohort than other cohorts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The message we need to get out to every household, driver and pedestrian relates to where they are most at risk. It is in the evening, at the weekend and in rural areas, predominantly. That does not mean they are safe in the middle of Dublin city, but they will be relatively safer-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I accept that fatalities constitute a very small number of the overall driving cohort, but I think the figure we were given last year was that 27% of fatalities had not been wearing seatbelts. Is that still the case? Is there still serious non-compliance with the use of seatbelts or is it just that the people who end up in accidents are the very few people who are not wearing them? Is the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Is it virtual reality stuff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: That was actually my next question. What else can we do for the witnesses, and what would they do if they were the Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: And even the type of vehicle, whether it is commercial or whatever else and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I am very conscious of the time, which is pretty much up. I thank all the witnesses for being here. Is there anything else we can do for then, and is there anything else, if they were the Minister in the morning, that they would do that we are not doing now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: If you became a benign dictator in the morning, there would not be other things you would do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Very good. Professor Cusack, if you could wave a magic wand, what would you do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Speeding, speeding, speeding is your number one issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It is still true, though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: That is the GoSafe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Not the bodycam.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Equally more technology so you do not have to use these valuable gardaí.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Deputy Cannon made a point about red light driving. I could show Ms Hilman certain junctions, and the State could make a lot of money quickly out of people doing red lights. There is one at the top of Eglinton Road. Every day, at every light sequence change cars are flying up Eglinton Road heading for Milltown and going through on the red - not just the orange, the red. I am cycling...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Gerry Horkan: In conclusion, I thank all of you for being here; Mr. Waide and his team, Mr. Rowland and Ms O'Connor, Professor Cusack, assistant commissioner Hilman, and Superintendent Murphy. Obviously, all committees are here to raise and articulate problems and concerns. However we acknowledge, and I certainly do, the enormous improvements in road safety figures over the years. I think 1972 was one...