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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What are the implications for Ireland with regard to cars and to a timeframe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If a person is disqualified in court, how long does it take for gardaí to get notification of the disqualification? How long before it comes to the system? Is there talk of an electronic transfer system being put in place so that if somebody is disqualified in court, it would go straight to the system and gardaí on patrol could see straight away if a person is disqualified. Is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How long will that take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Deputy Matthews is being very patient.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: A bonus point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: A preventative measure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I want to discuss data in my own time. Could the witnesses explain the difference between "road death totals" and "fatal road collisions"? What is the difference? For instance, in 2021, there were 136 road deaths and 123 fatal road collisions. Does the "fatal road collisions" total involve a car whereas the balance, which is 13, relates to pedestrians and others?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The difference between the two totals is 13. The total for road deaths was 136 and the total for fatal road collisions was 123. What is the difference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Okay. Of the 83 deaths that took place, there were 17 motorcyclists, ten passengers, 41 drivers, 12 pedestrians and two cyclists. How many of those involved one car, as distinct from two cars?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Some 48 were single-vehicle accidents.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: So that is 49 of the 83 that involved a single car. I should be able to calculate the difference in my head.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I wish to get down to the nuts and bolts. That means that 49 of the 80 collisions involved just one car. If it involved just one car, therefore the likelihood is that speed must have been a factor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Or drink and drugs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have the statistics for last year, 2021. When we look at speed, drink and drugs, what was the key commonality among the factors?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is important to me. What was the profile of the eight people who were killed on roads on the bank holiday? These are human beings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I want to get an idea of whether they were young or old. Was there a similar breakdown between motorcyclists and other road users? What was their profile?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There were six collisions and that resulted in eight deaths. Were they all in cars?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was that on the bank holiday weekend?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: In 2019, there were also eight fatalities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: My god. So there is something about that bank holiday weekend. Going back to Senator Buttimer's point, 2019 is probably the best contrast because it was pre-Covid and while we are not exactly post-Covid the situation has improved in that regard.