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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: In the context of the community safety partnerships being rolled out across the country, what action is the Department of Transport taking with An Garda Síochána to work with local authorities, especially where road safety and road maintenance are issues? As Mr. Walsh rightly stated, the latter is the responsibility of local authorities. What is the mechanism to communicate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I will follow up on that now and keep going. The question was about how many checkpoints were located and completed around the country on average every week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: What does Ms Gunne mean by "on average"?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: That is on the total of the year before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Will she give me information on the percentage of those checkpoints at which a significant arrest or detection was made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Will the witnesses come back with the three years preceding as well, if that is all right, to see the trend analysis? I would like a comment from An Garda Síochána about the role of community safety partnerships. I was chair of my own joint policing committee in south Dublin for quite a time. Road traffic and road safety were not necessarily mandates we had. I thought it was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: For DMR west last year, we saw an increase in the number of unaccompanied drivers arrested and charged. Has that trend persisted to quarter 2 of this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: That is a key one we are looking at, as it is a particular issue. It would be good to get analysis of it. I will return to the Department. In terms of various other schemes being supported by departmental policy, has any thought been given to a learner driver mentor programme similar to what is piloted in Australia and New Zealand?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: What is the expected timeframe for an implementation plan if there is one?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: If the recommendations were accepted, what sort of timeframe would the Department be looking at for an implementation plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: In terms of accepting the recommendations in principle, what sort of timeframe would the Department give to committing to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I accept that the SLA target is a waiting time of ten weeks. What proportion of total driving test applicants are waiting for longer than that? I accept that ten weeks is the average. Obviously, there are massive variations around that. I know Tallaght in my constituency, for example, is an area with an enormous waiting time. What percentage of driving test applicants are waiting longer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: That is up to now so it is likely it will top out at 1,200 by the end of the year.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will examine measures to support the continued availability of rental accommodation to households in receipt of the housing assistance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53827/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 300. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department has given further consideration to undertake an audit of early learning and childcare facilities, which have been granted planning permission as part of large scale residential development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53826/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (7 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new driving test centre in Sandyford will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53712/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 470. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an account of the new Garda districts and sub-districts set up in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53863/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí who have been seconded to national specialist units over the past year, including the size and strength of those units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53865/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 545. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on the progress being made in relation to reviewing the 2001 planning guidelines for childcare facilities; if an audit of facilities granted planning permission to date would provide important insights into their effectiveness as part of this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53866/25]

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (2 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I welcome the Tánaiste's utterance that it will be a digital first as opposed to a digital only approach. It is important to acknowledge that for many older people, these barriers they perceive to entering a digital world can be ones they do not feel comfortable expressing. That is why any services we design to embrace those people and bring them in should be designed to be proactive...