Results 41-60 of 326 for garda speaker:Jack Chambers

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (1 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...to get behind the actual evidence and support that initiative in the Oireachtas rather than trying to divide opinion. When it comes to the issue of enforcement, yes, it needs to improve and yes, the Garda does need to provide additional prioritization of enforcement in the context of their overall numbers. We have significant recruitment happening this year and there should be a roads...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (1 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: I take the wider concern from the Deputy, others and certainly the victims' organisations on the need to improve enforcement. That is something I raise at every meeting I have with An Garda Síochána and senior management in An Garda Síochána. We do need to see enforcement improve and we need to see the numbers in roads policing units improve. I am not dismissing that...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (30 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...is the Road Safety Transformation Partnership Board (RSTPB), comprising representatives from the Departments of Transport and Justice and bodies including the Road Safety Authority (RSA), An Garda Síochána, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), National Transport Authority (NTA) and the Courts Service. For Actions 67 and 122 in Phase 1 of the Road Safety Strategy, the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (30 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has a statutory remit to report on fatal, serious and minor injury collisions on public roads. The RSA receives collision data from An Garda Síochána for this purpose and produces official statistics to help develop evidence-based road safety interventions. Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's questions to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (25 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has a statutory remit to report on fatal, serious and minor injury collisions on public roads. The RSA receives collision data from An Garda Síochána for this purpose and produces official statistics to help develop evidence-based road safety interventions. Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's questions to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (23 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...Committee is the Road Safety Transformation Partnership Board (RSTPB), comprising officials from the Departments of Transport and Justice and bodies including the Road Safety Authority (RSA), An Garda Síochána, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, National Transport Authority and the Courts Service. In 2023, three subgroups were established by the RSTPB to consider matters...

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

Jack Chambers: ...1 and subsequent phases of the strategy is only possible through the close collaboration of a range of road safety partners, including other the Department of Transport, the Department of Justice, An Garda Siochana, the Road Safety Authority, the Medical Bureau of Road Safety, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the National Transport Authority and local authorities. Road safety experts are...

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

Jack Chambers: ...Strategy which has the ambitious target of reducing road deaths and serious injuries by 50% by 2030, and to achieve Vision Zero on Irish roads by 2050. My Department, the Road Safety Authority, An Garda Siochana and other road safety partners are very concerned with the rising fatalities and serious injuries on our roads and consequently, certain actions in Phase 1 action plan were...

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

Jack Chambers: ...recipient and the legal basis for sharing. The Government Departments, Agencies and other bodies that have received datasets from the Department of Transport include but are not limited to: -An Garda Siochana -Department of Public Expenditure, NPD Delivery and Reform -Department of Social Protection -Department for Infrastructure of Northern Ireland -Health and Safety Authority -Central...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (17 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has a statutory remit to report on fatal, serious and minor injury collisions on public roads. The RSA receives collisions data from An Garda Síochána for this purpose and produces official statistics to help develop evidence-based road safety interventions. Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's questions to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (17 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has a statutory remit to report on fatal, serious and minor injury collisions on public roads. The RSA receives collisions data from An Garda Síochána for this purpose and produces official statistics to help develop evidence-based road safety interventions. Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's questions to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (14 Dec 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...speed limits as recommended by the Review and to revise the Guidelines. Collectively, this will assist local authorities to carry out their own speed limit reviews and pass bye-laws for 'special' speed limits, where appropriate. An Garda Siochana are responsible for the enforcement of speed limits and do so through the use of cameras, such as GoSafe fixed cameras and variable speed...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (12 Dec 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...1 of the Government's Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030 is to 'Review current arrangements in relation to traffic wardens and other authorised officers' powers of enforcement, complementary to An Garda Síochána, to identify any further developments that may be appropriate, subject to legal advice.' This particular action arose out the public consultation phase during the...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...system to make Ireland and our communities a safer place for all. On justice issues, I have absolutely zero confidence in Sinn Féin. I have zero confidence in Sinn Féin as a party giving the Garda the support it needs to deal with the far right who want to undermine and destroy our country. Sinn Féin has seen a political opportunity and seized on the recent horrific...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...summary conviction. Following enactment of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 and the signing of a data sharing agreement under that legislation, MIBI has begun providing insurance details to An Garda Síochána on a daily basis, to support the identification of vehicles being driven without insurance. The data include: - Name and address of the insurance policy holder - Insurance...

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

Jack Chambers: ...progressed. We are trying to sequence and synchronise this in a way that actually translates into reducing speed limits. I agree that we need to strengthen enforcement. We are working with An Garda Síochána to ensure this. The Christmas road safety campaign is being launched today. The focus is very much on enforcement and on the issue of speed. I will come back on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (30 Nov 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...'s plate to indicate that they adhere to these parameters. Ensuring that any vehicle obeys the speed limit, as with the enforcement of all road traffic legislation, is ultimately a matter for An Garda Síochána. Separately, new rules, requiring registration, taxation, insurance and a driver’s licence, will shortly also apply to electric mopeds (e-mopeds). E-mopeds are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (29 Nov 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...the fleet. However, a noise test is carried out during the NCT where vehicle exhaust noise is excessive. Enforcement of noise pollution, as with all road traffic legislation, is a matter for An Garda Síochána. The Gardaí are empowered to stop cars with removed or faulty silencers and penalties apply under the Road Traffic Acts. This does not include the power to seize a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 Nov 2023)

Jack Chambers: ..., or providing a lifelong permit, would compromise permit security and increase the potential for fraud. Regular renewal ensures that the photograph is current and that enforcement authorities (An Garda Síochána and local authority traffic wardens) can confirm the permit holder’s identity and their entitlement to the permit. A defined validity period also restricts...

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

Jack Chambers: I propose to take Questions Nos. 254 and 255 together. As the Deputy may be aware, collision data are compiled by An Garda Síochána (AGS) in the first instance. AGS publish fatality statistics on a daily basis and other roads policing statistics on a regular basis, which can be accessed at: garda.ie/en/roads-policing/statistics/. With regard to reporting on collisions more...