Results 21-40 of 318 for garda speaker:Jack Chambers

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...safer and more appropriate speed limits, as we are doing in this Bill. The third issue we are addressing in the Bill is intoxicant testing. Section 9 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 provides for the Garda to conduct intoxicant testing in four scenarios. These are cases where, in the opinion of the Garda member, a person in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle in a public place: (a)...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...is a devolved function under the legislation. I agree that enforcement is an issue currently and it needs to improve. I have reflected that to the Commissioner and we engage regularly with An Garda Síochána. For all of our existing laws and the laws we are trying to enact to function and work, there has to be stronger levels of enforcement. We regularly raise that. Turning...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...We are, therefore, amending that section to remove this requirement. We are also making two consequential amendments to sections 40 and 41 of the 1961 Act. These sections relate to a production of a driving licence to a garda and giving a signature to a garda in conjunction with verifying a licence when produced. Obviously, we need to make sure that these powers will not apply in the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transfer of Undertakings (21 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...ability to provide Air Ambulance support to the HSE that includes day and night time air ambulance services for our offshore islands as well as other support to State organisations including An Garda Síochána. The procurement process was a “Competitive Procedure with Negotiations” as defined under the EU (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulation 2016 (SI...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...road safety. Bringing in mandatory drug testing will address a serious gap and issue we are seeing, particularly in light of the trend and the evidence we saw from the Road Safety Authority and An Garda Síochána last year, which showed very concerning and increasing levels of drug driving. We need to tackle that head-on. It is causing a serious number of deaths and injuries on...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...on increased public awareness campaigns in the latter and final months of 2023 and the early months of this year. In addition, as part of the road safety strategy, officials from my Department, TII, An Garda Síochána and the Department of Justice travelled to Scotland last October on a high-level fact-finding mission relating to camera-based enforcement. Building on this work...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...is issued by the Department of Transport and includes the requirement to surrender the driving licence or learner permit to the NDLS within 14 days of commencement of disqualification. An Garda Síochána have access to data on the National Vehicle Driver File (NVDF) as part of their Mobility Strategy and therefore can detect and prosecute a driver who continues to drive while...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (13 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...follows international best practice, aligns with EU and UN targets, and is based on the Safe System approach. The Strategy is being delivered in partnership by my Department, the Road Safety Authority, An Garda Síochána and other road safety partners. The Strategy is currently in Phase 1, with close to 200 actions underway or already completed. These actions are aligned with the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (7 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has a statutory remit to report on fatal, serious and minor injury collisions on public roads. The RSA receives collision data from An Garda Síochána for this purpose and produces official statistics to help develop evidence-based road safety interventions. Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's questions to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (7 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...continue to be provided where customers, through no fault of their own, are unable to obtain their NCT due to backlogs at test centres. Similarly, my Department has been advised that members of An Garda Síochána will take evidence of a booked appointment into account when dealing with these matters and that motorists should keep evidence of their booking with their vehicle.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (1 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: On the wider point I mentioned to others earlier, there is a need to improve enforcement and policing across the country. That is a key priority in our engagement with An Garda Síochána.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (1 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...minor upgrades to realign roads at dangerous bends, and pavement repair. It is also important to emphasise that road traffic legislation is enforced as part of the day-to-day duties of all members of An Garda Síochána. Road safety is a foremost priority for me. It is important that we strengthen the number of road safety initiatives this year.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (1 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...to get behind the actual evidence and support that initiative in the Oireachtas rather than trying to divide opinion. When it comes to the issue of enforcement, yes, it needs to improve and yes, the Garda does need to provide additional prioritization of enforcement in the context of their overall numbers. We have significant recruitment happening this year and there should be a roads...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (1 Feb 2024)

Jack Chambers: I take the wider concern from the Deputy, others and certainly the victims' organisations on the need to improve enforcement. That is something I raise at every meeting I have with An Garda Síochána and senior management in An Garda Síochána. We do need to see enforcement improve and we need to see the numbers in roads policing units improve. I am not dismissing that...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (30 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...is the Road Safety Transformation Partnership Board (RSTPB), comprising representatives from the Departments of Transport and Justice and bodies including the Road Safety Authority (RSA), An Garda Síochána, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), National Transport Authority (NTA) and the Courts Service. For Actions 67 and 122 in Phase 1 of the Road Safety Strategy, the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (30 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has a statutory remit to report on fatal, serious and minor injury collisions on public roads. The RSA receives collision data from An Garda Síochána for this purpose and produces official statistics to help develop evidence-based road safety interventions. Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's questions to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Accidents (25 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: The Road Safety Authority (RSA) has a statutory remit to report on fatal, serious and minor injury collisions on public roads. The RSA receives collision data from An Garda Síochána for this purpose and produces official statistics to help develop evidence-based road safety interventions. Given the RSA's responsibility in this matter, I have referred the Deputy's questions to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (23 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...Committee is the Road Safety Transformation Partnership Board (RSTPB), comprising officials from the Departments of Transport and Justice and bodies including the Road Safety Authority (RSA), An Garda Síochána, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, National Transport Authority and the Courts Service. In 2023, three subgroups were established by the RSTPB to consider matters...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...1 and subsequent phases of the strategy is only possible through the close collaboration of a range of road safety partners, including other the Department of Transport, the Department of Justice, An Garda Siochana, the Road Safety Authority, the Medical Bureau of Road Safety, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the National Transport Authority and local authorities. Road safety experts are...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 Jan 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...Strategy which has the ambitious target of reducing road deaths and serious injuries by 50% by 2030, and to achieve Vision Zero on Irish roads by 2050. My Department, the Road Safety Authority, An Garda Siochana and other road safety partners are very concerned with the rising fatalities and serious injuries on our roads and consequently, certain actions in Phase 1 action plan were...