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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is much better. Last year, I booked a test for July in February. My test was due in October and I could get one in a week. It has transformed. Credit where credit is due for those involved, including the RSA, Applus and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: That was one of my points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: That point has been raised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: That is a start.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is my slot next but I will defer to Deputy Kenny as he has to go to the Chamber.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: They might have been alive if they had been wearing their seat belts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It is a reminder to all of us to make sure we always wear our seat belts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: I will address a couple of issues. One is the issue of people who lose their driver's licence or whose licences are confiscated. They are banned from driving by the court but very few of them surrender their licences. I am not as concerned as to whether they surrender the plastic card but we seem to keep finding people on the roads who are driving without permission to drive. An Garda...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Should the RSA be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. Walsh think it is a power the RSA would maybe like to have? If somebody breaks a red light or is speeding, the RSA can do nothing about it. The authority can ask An Garda Síochána to do something about it and can ask the local authorities to install red light cameras but it cannot install them. That is where I see the disconnect in that we want the RSA to make roads...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: How do we make it actually happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: In terms of the drivers, every garda will have this technology and they will be able to call up the information more quickly. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Does anybody confiscate cars at the moment at all?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Does it go back into the database the gardaí then have access to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Is the waiting time for driver licence testing now down to 15 weeks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Fórsa officials will appear before the committee in the next hour. Their opening statement states that at the time of writing, waiting times are approximately 24 weeks. I want clarity from the RSA.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: It may have been the case when the statement was written and I am not sure how long ago it was done. It has been in or around 15 weeks for a while. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: When was the waiting time 24 weeks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Okay, so not a million years ago.