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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: That is what I meant. It is detections versus overall traffic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I suppose a lot of that is people are tired or may be distracted because they are thinking about what shopping they are getting on the way home or are making phone calls they maybe should not be. There is a lot of volume and people are tired.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I remember hearing a statistic years ago that lots of accidents happen within one mile of the driver's house. Is that still the case? Does it tend to be the local and familiar or people maybe chancing their arm coming back from the local pub late at night?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Is that for fatalities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We were always told that it was late at night, at the weekend, on rural roads and involved young people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Maybe working from home has made a change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: As motorists, it would also be useful for us to know that there are times that, although we might not consider them risky, the statistics show they are. There are much larger volumes travelling at those times, so the percentage of accidents relevant to traffic might be less, but the incidents are still numerically high.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: And speeding.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: All the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: And it has effects on driving for a long time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: The Garda would not have been catching them before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Pubs were shut.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I might come in on that point. Alcohol flushes through a person’s system faster. The test used to read “Pass”, “Fail” and “Zero”. If someone passed, there might be something in his or her system, but it was below the limit. Is the case with drugs the same? People take drugs and probably do not realise those have an effect on their systems....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: We have had him in here before and I am sure we will have him in here again. I know he is very welcome.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: This would be because there would be a sufficient level of drugs in their system for it to considered dangerous for driving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I know we are talking about road safety but people who fail the blood test are not then prosecuted for being in possession of drugs as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: But if drugs were found in the car-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: They could be done for possession of drugs as well as being over the limit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I call Deputy Crowe. Does the Deputy have any questions to ask?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Gerry Horkan: For the benefit of road safety.