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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will proceed to Senator Pauline O'Reilly, who is to be followed by Senator Sherlock and Deputy Hourigan. They may take about seven minutes each. I will not be precious about time so if their line of questioning demands more, I will allow flexibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: You know your geography very well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I call Deputy Hourigan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: You are most welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I do not want this to be adversarial. Deputy Hourigan has made a valid point. We are all trying to make the roads safer. Providing high-vis material to school children is very welcome. Is there also a need to extend the programme to include all aspects of this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I am a former councillor and have been a public representative for many years. We deal with this issue on a daily basis. People in residential areas approach me to say they want speed limits reduced. I go back to the council and interact with it. I have been dealing with this for years and I understand it. The question is: what will work? I always look at things in the round. I would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: What is the membership of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Do groups like Love 30 have interaction with this working group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I want to get down to business. For me the conduit is the working group. We need to look at it in the round. How long has it been up and running at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Who is chairing that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will there be public consultation involving Love 30 and other groups that have campaigned on this? Will they have an opportunity to make submissions and interact with the working group?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: The committee will follow up on that. Ms Swift asked what we could do in a practical way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: The Deputy might let me give my thoughts on this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: I have come to a view on this after many years as a public representative. Mr. Rowland mentioned Caherconlish, which he knows well. It is a narrow lane with a significant amount of traffic going through. We need to get a bit of knowledge. We would like to get feedback on who is on the working group and its terms of reference so that we can feed into that. Is it required to report at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: We will do a body of work on that and we will feed into it. The next step is on a practical level. Typically, people in a particular estate or road want to get a speed limit reduced not increased. Typically, the local authority only reviews that every three years or so. In the other countries Mr. Rowland mentioned, who sets the speed limits? They are moving towards a default speed limit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Have Ms Swift and Ms O'Dea looked at how other countries function?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Can we agree on the principle that there should be a default? It then becomes a question of the 30 km/h and how it is implemented. There are inconsistencies between different local authorities and even in specific areas within local authorities. The working group is operational but its terms of reference have yet to be defined. The committee will write to the Department to get the details...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: There are two elements to it. There is the point of principle that all built-up areas would have a speed limit of 30 km/h and then each local authority could then argue that an area should not be. Has Dr. D'Arcy had an opportunity to see how it is functioning in other countries? Is it implemented by the local authority or on a national basis? How does it work in practice? What model...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Urban Area Speed Limits and Road Safety Strategy: Discussion (1 Mar 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: We always like an exclusive.