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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: It is, but the witnesses represent the Road Safety Authority. Cars are the reason our roads are unsafe. Will Mr. Waide answer that?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: The reason our roads are unsafe.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: That sounds remarkably like an argument for gun licensing in the US. It is not the guns are the problem, it is the people who use them.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Earlier on Mr. Waide said that he gets really frustrated at the lack of technology available to the RSA, An Garda Síochána and the Department. Yet, when opportunities arise for the use of that, the RSA is stony silent. Assistant Garda commissioner, Paula Hillman, sat in a room close to this on 4 October 2023 and told us that a dashcam portal system would go live in 2024. We are...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: That is two locations.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: I said the RSA is silent on active travel.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: You are not heard. Your voice is not there.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Research is wonderful but you need to be a powerful advocate speaking on the national airwaves every day on behalf of the people who lose brothers, sisters, mothers and daughters.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: The RSA's work in this area has been superb but the most effective way to protect cyclists is to separate them completely from traffic.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: The RSA is utterly silent on this. Whenever a debate arises at national level, and everyone in this room knows the debates that have been had in the past 24 months, the RSA has been nowhere to be heard.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: You are the Road Safety Authority.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: The RSA needs to be that lone, independent, authoritative, unsullied voice for vulnerable road users and it is not. It is that simple.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: No, you need to be an advocate.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: I want to go back to Mr. Waide’s most recent comment on analysing the raison d'etre of the RSA and how it is constituted. I thank him for that comment because that is ultimately what I want to raise here today. I wish to point out that the way in which the RSA is established and funded is fundamentally flawed. I am not questioning for a moment the individual commitment of Mr. Waide...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank Mr. Waide. I have a final question. There is research beginning to emanate now from a number of different locations here in Europe and indeed in the US. There is some really good research coming from the US. One particular piece looks at death and injury in the state of Illinois over a period of three years, from 2016 to 2019. All concluded that children are eight times more...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the witnesses for joining us. My first question is for Ms Eade, if that is appropriate, and is on the overall health and well-being of HRI. Has Horse Racing Ireland's income fully recovered at this point in the post-Covid era when compared with its pre-Covid income?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Has there been any legacy long-term reduction in the general number attending race meetings across the country arising from the Covid pandemic? Are those numbers fully recovered at this point?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Horse Racing Ireland
Financial Statements 2022: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (20 Jun 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Approximately what element of Horse Racing Ireland's annual revenue accrues from gambling?