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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: On behalf of the committee, I am pleased to welcome from An Garda Síochána Commissioner Drew Harris and Assistant Commissioner Paula Hilman. I will read a note on privilege. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Commissioner Harris for attending. I will contribute first, followed by other members. This is one of the most important meetings we have ever had because we are dealing with life and death, literally. Of course, we sometimes forget about serious injury. We tend to focus on the number of road deaths, maybe not taking into account people who have been injured. The National...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: That is going from about 55 to maybe 155.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: How many static cameras are there now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. By "camera", do you mean the two cameras-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: The intention is 100 more of them. That means going from two to maybe 102.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Are these single static cameras rather than the average?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Are these singles?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Plus three more to come.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Okay, I thank the witnesses for that. There will be many more cameras, and that is what is hoped for. For the information of people watching, does the revenue from that come back into An Garda Síochána to fund more road safety or does it go to the Courts Service? Where does it end up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: -----less offences and less money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is not about the revenue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I am giving myself little bit more time. Whatever I give myself, I will give the same to the others who are here. We will have enough time to cover everybody. In regard to urban matters, I cycle in and out of here more often than not, but I am also a driver. I see a large amount of not orange light breaking but red light breaking. It is almost persistent and constant at many of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Is there any pathway to doing that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: The more automation there is of mundane tasks like cameras focusing on bus lanes, cycle lanes and red lights, the less need there is to take gardaí away from other crime duties or other parts of roads policing. The Garda Commissioner referred to the 6,675 vehicles seized. Were they all seized for having no insurance or were there other reasons? What kind of vehicles are being seized,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: What happens when they are seized? Can the owners get them back? Are they crushed or sold on the open market? What happens to a seized vehicle?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Will the witnesses give the committee details - maybe not now - of what was seized, what happened to them ultimately and why they were seized. That would be useful.