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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: If the Garda place a van somewhere and detections fall massively over a couple of months, the van will be moved. I know vans are moved every day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: A van will regularly go into an area, so for as long as there are lots of detections there, it is clear the message is not sinking in enough. Eventually, though, the numbers will drop.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: There are lots of roads in Dublin where there are buckets of traffic and not many accidents because the traffic is going so slowly. It does not generally lead to a lot of fatalities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: As somebody who goes down the country a lot but is based in Dublin, I see roads down the country with an 80 km/h speed limit and there could nearly be grass growing in the middle of some of these laneways. You would not reach 80 km/h if you tried but it is technically still the speed limit. I know there are different reviews taking place on bringing those down.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: The speed limit on the Stillorgan dual carriageway, the N11, was 60 km/h while on some of these rural roads that barely let two cars pass each other it is officially 80 km/h. That seemed to me unwise at the very least. I think the speed limit review will cover a lot of that. It will bring some of those 80 km/h limits down to 50 km/h and so on. Does the Commissioner wish to raise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: That will be great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Category W is a work vehicle. I do not know what the category is for a motorcycle. They do need a driving licence but, ultimately, they do not need any safety check of the vehicle at any frequency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: That is what I meant. It is detections versus overall traffic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I suppose a lot of that is people are tired or may be distracted because they are thinking about what shopping they are getting on the way home or are making phone calls they maybe should not be. There is a lot of volume and people are tired.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: I remember hearing a statistic years ago that lots of accidents happen within one mile of the driver's house. Is that still the case? Does it tend to be the local and familiar or people maybe chancing their arm coming back from the local pub late at night?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Is that for fatalities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: We were always told that it was late at night, at the weekend, on rural roads and involved young people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Maybe working from home has made a change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: As motorists, it would also be useful for us to know that there are times that, although we might not consider them risky, the statistics show they are. There are much larger volumes travelling at those times, so the percentage of accidents relevant to traffic might be less, but the incidents are still numerically high.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: And speeding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: All the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: And it has effects on driving for a long time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: The Garda would not have been catching them before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Gerry Horkan: Pubs were shut.