Results 21-40 of 157 for drugs speaker:Jack Chambers

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...of legislation which will address a number of key areas, including introducing safer default speed limits on national secondary roads, local/rural roads and in built up areas, introducing mandatory drug testing at the scene of serious traffic collisions, and reforming the penalty points system so motorists receive multiple sets of penalty points where multiple offences are committed. ...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...aimed at addressing road safety issues in a number of key areas, including introducing safer default speed limits on national secondary roads, rural roads and in built up areas, introducing mandatory drug testing at the scene of serious traffic collisions, and reforming the penalty points system so motorists receive multiple sets of penalty points where multiple offences are committed. ...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (17 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...on 20 December 2023. This Bill will act as a response to the ongoing rising trend of road fatalities and serious injuries. Three key areas will be addressed in the Bill: penalty point reform, drug testing at the scene of collisions, and the implementation of key Speed Limit Review recommendations. In terms of speed limits, the Bill seeks to introduce safer default speed limits by reducing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Road Safety (30 Nov 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...main causes of collisions on our roads, and the speed of the collision can determine whether death or serious injury results. The new Bill will make it mandatory for gardaí to test drivers for drugs after a collision involving death or injury. Currently, drug testing in these cases is optional. The new approach will be in line with alcohol testing provisions. It is hoped that,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (7 Nov 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...Bill 2023. This will be a focused Bill addressing key issues, which I aim to see passed as soon as possible. This Bill will address speed limits, penalty points, and testing of drivers for drugs. In the case of speed limits, it will implement crucial recommendations of the recent speed limit review completed by my Department to reduce certain default speed limits. The default limit...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...phone usage are being reported by drivers in Ireland. Research from 2022 indicates that approximately one in four motorists are not only checking their phones, but writing messages while driving. Drug driving is also a serious concern. Data indicate that Irish drivers arrested for drug driving are typically male and under the age of 45. Cannabis, cocaine and benzodiazepines are the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...of dangerous road behaviour. This is aligned with Action 30 of the road safety strategy. While the recommendations on penalty points from that group are contained in the Bill, it also contains proposals on mandatory drug testing and the introduction of safer speed limit defaults following the publication of the speed limit review last month. These are all areas in which I believe we can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...offences in that speed was still a central factor. We know that the trend during Covid and even after continued in terms of the incidence of intoxicated driving. The consumption of alcohol and drugs is still a significant factor. That trend is continuing again this year. Distracted driving is a serious issue. Research by the RSA has analysed driver behaviour post the pandemic, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...injured over that weekend in the past five years. We know that over the May bank holiday weekend in 2022 there were 2,800 speed incidents, 154 motorists driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and 91 drivers not wearing a seatbelt. The June bank holiday weekend, since 2018, has seen 20 fatalities and 94 serious injuries. When this was studied, and when they changed this in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: Deputy Lowry is correct about the scale of the problem with drug driving. Tracking back on those who have died has shown that 13% of driver fatalities have positive toxicology for cocaine and 7% had a positive toxicology result for cannabis. Those figures, which are for the period 2015 to 2019, show the prevalence of drug driving. In addition, 37% of driver fatalities had a positive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...the reforms on the speed limits review. We are trying to enact the legislation before Christmas. We want to have it ready for early 2024 in terms of having penalty points reforms, multiple offences and mandatory drug testing in one Act. I do not think these areas are contentious but they will make a significant difference. We see the trend in drug driving. I share the views expressed...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...is effective in highlighting the issues drivers need to know about, with the constant concerns of speed, seatbelts and attentiveness still requiring attention, and newer challenges also relevant, including the impact of drugs on driving. A review of the RSA will commence shortly to ensure it has what it needs to fully deliver on this agenda. The RSA’s efforts will be underwritten...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (27 Sep 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...night-times feature lower traffic volumes, they do feature high numbers of collisions. Evidence suggests that these periods present greater risks in terms of driver behaviours such as drink- and drug-driving and fatigue. A more recent 2023 observational study found that 46% of drivers were driving above the 50 km/h speed limit demonstrating that speeding is a current and significant...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (27 Sep 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...often because of shocking behaviour. This is what we need to stamp out. We must ensure there is strengthened enforcement and campaigns. The Senator also spoke about the issue of speeding and drug- and drink-driving. With An Garda Síochána and the wider campaigns, we are trying to strengthen the response in this regard. Senator McGreehan also spoke about infrastructure and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (16 May 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...and severely impact on their quality of life. There is currently no approved treatment for Friedreich's ataxia in Europe. A new medicine omaveloxolone has recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, FDA, in the United States for this condition, as the Senator mentioned. The European Medicines Agency, EMA, is a centralised agency of the European Union responsible for the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (16 May 2023)

Jack Chambers: I thank the Senator for his statement and feedback and, in particular, the feedback from many of the people he engaged with who are seeking progress relating to this orphan drug, which has made progress in the United States. I will reflect that feedback to the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. As well as dedicated funding for new medicines, the Minister plans to develop a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (9 May 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...xe1;na to test a driver involved in a fatal or serious collision for the presence of alcohol. It is the Department's understanding that a garda arriving at the scene of such a collision will also test for drugs as a matter of best practice, particularly since the introduction of improved portable testing technology in recent months, but no formal requirement is set out in legislation at...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)

Jack Chambers: I move: Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion reProposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 9(2)) (Amount of Financial Contribution) Order 2022 (back from Committee) (without debate) - Motion reMinisterial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (without debate) - Motion reProtocol and arrangements for President von der...