Results 1,881-1,900 of 9,116 for speaker:Jack Chambers
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: There is also a need to prioritise and keep focus on the road safety dimension to road investment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: That is something we are keen to advance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: I acknowledge the expertise of TII. It would be unfair to accuse it of politicising something. I have engaged with councils on this. To take the Knock to Collooney road, the N17 along the Atlantic corridor, or the N4 from Mullingar to Longford as examples, they have a very poor safety record. The outworking of that may have consequences. It is a matter for TII to respond on how reports...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: We will reflect that feedback to the Commissioner. The overall active travel budget of €360 million and the huge investment we are seeing is to provide additional segregation for many vulnerable road users. Thirty-eight pedestrians have died this year. It is tracking to be the worst year in 15 years for pedestrians killed on our roads. That shows the serious impact on vulnerable...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: It is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: Deputy Lowry is correct about the scale of the problem with drug driving. Tracking back on those who have died has shown that 13% of driver fatalities have positive toxicology for cocaine and 7% had a positive toxicology result for cannabis. Those figures, which are for the period 2015 to 2019, show the prevalence of drug driving. In addition, 37% of driver fatalities had a positive...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. On the speed limits first, the principal recommendation in urban areas is 30 km/h, as I have said, and that is for urban centres, but there are exceptions to that. There is 50 km/h for key arterial routes. These are public transport routes, for example, or roads that would be better engineered than one within a residential area. That is set out in detail...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: I forgot the issue of seat belts, which is important. Going back to the coronial data from 2015-19, 40% of driver fatalities in that period were not waiting a seat belt. That is a shocking figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: Yes, 40%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: That figure relates to driver fatalities where there are records available but all available records are being examined. From 2015 to 2019, 40%-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: It is 40% of driver fatalities-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: -----were not wearing a seat belt. There is also a percentage in the context of the self-reporting survey data. It is a shocking figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: This is part of the piece we are reforming in the legislation. A person who is not wearing a seat belt and is using a mobile phone is exhibiting a combination of multiple risk-taking behaviours. That person could kill himself or herself and others through distracted driving and not wearing a seat belt. At the moment, such persons would only receive points-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: They would only receive points for one of those two offences despite them being committed in the same act. That will be changed in order to ensure they get points for both offences.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: The Deputy mentioned a road between two towns, which would likely be a regional road. The speed limit there would be 80 km/h. We have not proposed any changes to regional roads. If the Deputy is referring to a national secondary road, the speed limit could be between 80 km/h and 100 km/h but where it is safe to do so, local authorities will be able to revise the speed limit upwards. In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: Some people do not pay heed to any legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: The data are there. An Garda Síochána is intercepting and detecting-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: We can always point to enforcement as a reason never to reform. I acknowledged at the start that enforcement has a central role but we must also look at the evidence. This measure has been shown to work elsewhere. If the legislation is enacted, this is something we will look to progress in 2024.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: Deputy Kenny gave two examples of roads, both of which I clarified for him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)
Jack Chambers: He had a perception that it was one thing. He also mentioned the N4. It is also important that we are factual in showing people what we are actually proposing rather than them thinking it is something it is not.