Results 21-40 of 9,710 for speaker:Gerry Horkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Sorry, fatigue surprised me. So 20% of people said they have fallen asleep at the wheel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is one in five. It is not all the time but they have admitted doing it on an occasion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I could go on and on but I want to allow other members of the committee in too. Hopefully we will get a second round in before we are finished. I want to thank everyone for all they are doing. I hope people are watching. We will all do our best to communicate to our communities and the people we know the significant risk factors. There was a reference in Mr. Waide’s briefing...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Before I call Deputy Smith, I want to commend the TY programme being rolled out. I am the chair of the board of Ardscoil Rís in Limerick, which was featured on "Today with Claire Byrne" some weeks ago. It is really impactful. I remember going to the access road shows in the Royal Marine Hotel in Dún Laoghaire where there were people in floods of tears. You do not want to upset...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I was going to give the Deputy a little extra. I will bring everybody back in for a second round. I will also bring in Senator Garvey after committee members have been dealt with.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is proposed to upgrade and change the syllabus because motorway driving is not currently part of the driving test or lessons. We did not have motorways 30 years ago but we have many of them now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: People comply when they are watched.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Was it a "gimmick"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Or the pedestrian or cyclist.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I do not wear high-visibility clothing when I am cycling because it is a fashion statement; I wear it because I do not want someone to hit me. That is the only reason I wear it. It is like cycling helmets. People do not wear helmets because they want to do so. Someone does put a fire escape into a building because they want to have a fire. It is there if something goes wrong. I saw...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: That would be great. I will bring in other speakers but I do want to say with regard to people wearing high-visibility clothing that some people say to me it should be compulsory. I would not make it compulsory but I would say to people that if they want to reduce their chances of being hit they should wear high-visibility clothing. If they want to reduce their chances of having a serious...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Senator Garvey has five minutes, and she has spent nearly four of them. I want to give the witnesses a chance to respond as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the Senator.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Sure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Senator Garvey. We have a member of our committee next, Deputy Lowry, and then I will bring in Deputy Sherlock.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: They are the rules, which I why I was doing it that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: On the NCT, I think the figures are much better than they were. There is one figure I would like our guests to provide to the committee after the meeting, namely, the number of people who are persistently reminded their NCT is due and who just ignore that and keep driving. It was quite a significant number. I know the RSA cannot tell because there is a two-year rollover, but there are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Walsh has had a much easier time today than he had before.