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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: Before we bring in the witnesses, I want to deal with some housekeeping. The purpose of today's meeting is to engage with stakeholders about the examination of enforcement of road traffic offences. Various representatives are coming in. Before we get to that, I want to deal with some incidents that arose over the last fortnight. We had a sequence of events here over the past couple of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: This is public session, as we speak. The cameras are rolling. This is a live attraction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: I am happy to speak to both members, or to any other members, after the meeting. It was not my intention to refer to any community in particular. I was trying to come at it from a wider position. As I said last week, there was a series of events over the summer which I felt needed attention and still need attention. I refer to a series of incidents rather than any particular incident....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: The witnesses are all welcome. We are still getting used to having physical meetings again. As we have had hybrid and Zoom meetings for a long time, it is something of a novelty to have a full house on both sides of the room with witnesses and members. It is a pleasure to be able to do so and it makes for a much better meeting. Forgive me that I am hoarse. I have a little bit of a dose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: I thank Mr. Ferrie for those opening remarks. I will turn to Dublin Bus and Ms Keane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: Ms Keane, I am reluctant to interrupt, but you are out of time. You may make a 30-second closing remark. I know your statement has quite a bit left in it. You can come in with the other comments later in the session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: Thank you Ms Keane. You will have the opportunity, in the course of engaging with members, to make the other points as we go through. We will now move to An Garda Síochána. I call Superintendent Hilman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: Thank you. I think I addressed Ms Hilman as superintendent, I should have said assistant commissioner. I call Dr. Lyes from the Limerick Pedestrian Network. You have three minutes. You will have plenty of opportunities over the session to come back in and out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: I invite members to come in at this stage. As I said at the outset, we will have seven minutes per member in the first round to include both questions and responses. Deputy Cannon is a guest of the committee but as he is substituting for the Vice-Chair of the committee, he gets to move up the ranks and he has also indicated early. The order will be Deputy Cannon, Deputy Costello and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: I'm sorry to interrupt the Deputy, but in order to allow time for some responses, he might want to finish up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: Does the Deputy want to direct those to a particular person? I think he has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: Thank you, Ms Keane. I am going to leave it there as the next member is due up. In fairness to the committee I would like to move it on. I know there was a second or third question on which we did not get a response. Perhaps in the context of replying to other members you may want to address the questions as well, in terms of the interests of time and to be fair to everybody. Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: Not when we are way over time, Deputy, unfortunately. The way we operate the committee, each member has a seven-minute slot and they can ask a question that takes one minute and have six minutes for answers, or they can use a six-minute set of questions and have one minute for answers. Each member has their own choice on how to manage their time so the party will have a chance to respond....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

James Lawless: Very good. We will take them in that order. If those from An Garda would also like to use the time to respond briefly to the question from Deputy Cannon, they may do so.