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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: During what year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I do not really want to go into detail.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When Ms Hilman is answering the question, will she give me a statistic for what has been the increase in detection of drink- and drug-driving? An Garda Síochána does fantastic work, but Ms Hilman will appreciate that we have a role as a committee to ask the questions. What has been the change in the detection rate for alcohol and drugs for the first six months of this year...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is 21 people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is 28 people. We will get rid of the statistic about drugs and alcohol first. I will then go into the substantive issue of the bank holiday weekend and what will be done differently. How can we assist An Garda Síochána in terms of legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Ms Hilman talking about a six-month period in 2019?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is a reduction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does An Garda Síochána have many more machines on the go? Those figures came through road policing and community engagement. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have Chief Superintendent Gerard Roche and the joint policing committees in Limerick. I always follow the statistics. The drug side of them is going up exponentially.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Ms Hilman to talk about the bank holiday. It is quite amazing. There are a total of 21. There were eight fatalities and 13 serious injuries. In 2019, there were eight fatalities and 20 serious injuries. It is the exact same number of fatalities. What is happening?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is that the bank holiday just gone?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is amazing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is double.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How many of those were single-vehicle collisions? I apologise. Ms Hilman has already given me a figure on that, in fairness.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Ms Hilman to explain. With all the measures An Garda Síochána puts in place, how many speeding detections did it make?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: No, I wish to know about the bank holiday weekend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How many were made in 2019?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy 2021-30: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: An Garda Síochána is doing all of this very good policing work. Why then did we have eight fatalities and 13 serious injuries on the roads? We have to ask the hard questions. It is not personal. As public representatives, we are duty-bound to ask those questions.