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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: I thank the Garda Commissioner and the assistant commissioner for coming in today. The first contribution focused on static cameras and the measures that are vitally important. I can attest personally to the success of the average speed camera in the Dublin Port tunnel, which got me a couple of points on my licence four years ago. It was a lesson well learned. It was twice in a week...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: Would this be about €250,000 for one new static camera?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: Is this with installation and annual costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: I am not coming from that point of view. I am just trying to get some detail on it. The Labour Party today brought, in a collaborative fashion, a motion on road safety to the Dáil. We are all trying to reduce road fatalities in whatever way we can. Not all responsibility, as we know, is on An Garda Síochána. What is the overall number of Garda personnel in the roads...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: If we are to reach the target of adding 75 more per year, will the additional members be new recruits coming out of Templemore College or will they be taken from existing resources, or a combination?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: Okay. So it will have an impact on other services if we are taking them out to go into roads policing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: How many of the 623 are on active suspension at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: The average is 4%----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: In 2009, it was 1,055.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: -----and when it comes to those 623 members, there is nothing extraordinary, such as a rate of 10% ,11%, 12% or anything like that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: Okay. Are the 30 minutes of high-visibility roads policing per shift calculated as occurring at the roadside?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: Is the Commissioner saying that it would not necessarily involve holding a speed gun or swabbing someone's mouth and that it could involve walking past a school gate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: I did not intend for that to sound disparaging, but it would it be something of that nature.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: Many existing and important Garda duties, such as visibility in and around towns, schools, etc., are being carried out but could now be chalked down to ticking the 30-minute box for high-visibility roads policing. Does the Commissioner accept that there was an impression absorbed by the public this policing would include tackling the four killer behaviours by means of the use of speed guns...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: I thank the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: I thank the assistant commissioner.
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: We too in the Labour Party welcome this Bill. Transparency in healthcare is vital so that we as legislators know the areas that need improvement and can take action more swiftly, when needed. Amending the Health Act 2007 to give the Chief Inspector of Social Services new powers and to make amendments to existing provisions relating to enforcement, and the collection, sharing and publication...