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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: What is the point of those three aspects? Why did Mr. Waide outline them in particular?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: To make our roads safer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That is fair enough; that is fine. What is the greatest cause of the undermining of road safety in Ireland and across the world? Why are our roads unsafe?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: On whose part?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Mr. Waide does not see the RSA as having any role in working towards a reduction in the number of cars on our roads.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Bearing in mind, they are the very thing that makes our roads unsafe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That is my problem. It is not the fault of Mr. Waide nor any of his colleagues who work with him. The very raison d'être of the Road Safety Authority is being called into question. Its sole function should be to make our roads safer. Yet, when Mr. Waide is questioned in this committee and on RTÉ, he lists out all of its other responsibilities, which are onerous. When he was...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Is Mr. Waide saying he wants to see the RSA divested of all its other responsibilities?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: I am not questioning that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That leads me to the next question. I agree with Mr. Waide that he cannot do that. He does not have the legislative power or resources. The review is under way, but I have been arguing for the last year or so that we really need to explore the establishment of a road safety commissioner. The authority's chairperson, Liz O'Donnell, was asked by Claire Byrne on 14 March whether there would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Does Mr. Waide have an opinion on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: The World Health Organization tells us that cars - not cancer and malnutrition - are the leading killer worldwide of children and young people aged between five and 29. The RSA relies on cars and the drivers of cars for 98% of its income. Does Mr. Waide not see a fundamental problem here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: It is, but the witnesses represent the Road Safety Authority. Cars are the reason our roads are unsafe. Will Mr. Waide answer that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: The reason our roads are unsafe.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That sounds remarkably like an argument for gun licensing in the US. It is not the guns are the problem, it is the people who use them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Earlier on Mr. Waide said that he gets really frustrated at the lack of technology available to the RSA, An Garda Síochána and the Department. Yet, when opportunities arise for the use of that, the RSA is stony silent. Assistant Garda commissioner, Paula Hillman, sat in a room close to this on 4 October 2023 and told us that a dashcam portal system would go live in 2024. We are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: That is two locations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: I said the RSA is silent on active travel.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: You are not heard. Your voice is not there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Ciarán Cannon: Research is wonderful but you need to be a powerful advocate speaking on the national airwaves every day on behalf of the people who lose brothers, sisters, mothers and daughters.