Results 1-13 of 13 for drugs segment:8891050
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Jack Chambers: ...Bill that will be signed into law by the President shortly, we will legislate for safer default speed limits, harsher penalties for those caught committing multiple driver offences and mandatory drug testing at the scene of a collision. This new legislation will help to encourage safer driving behaviours in all four areas of concern. In terms of other immediate actions, the Road...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: ...'s lives are put at risk. The Government is reducing the speed limits on roads where there are no accidents. Looking at the statistics, how many of these accidents have been caused by drink, drugs, drink and drugs or speed? If we have more gardaí on the roads to police them, we might have fewer accidents but the Government depleted the Garda service. More people are retiring...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: ...villages, as they walked home because they were pushed out onto the road by briars that had not been cut. There is a massive increase in the number of deaths on our roads because of people using drugs. The Government does not want to monitor that and is not able to do so. The Killarney bypass has been left for 24 years with no progress and the traffic volume has increased. The...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...the Minister for Justice is following up on this but we really need to fill as many of the vacant posts as quickly as possible and get back to the numbers we need. I am also concerned about drink and drug driving. Drug driving is becoming increasingly common, which is very concerning. It is good to see the Garda actively policing this. Let me raise my two fundamental issues. I...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...face more severe penalties. If she is saying this, we need to pay attention. She revealed that studies have shown high levels of non-compliance in terms of speeding, mobile phone use, drink and drugs. This is unacceptable. Community-based road safety groups from across the country have said the RSA is not fit for purpose. I am raising this because I have a huge issue with it. The...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Michael Lowry: ...of the time. Ongoing and hard-hitting education and awareness campaigns on the dangers of driving while under the influence of mind-altering substances must be a major focus. Campaigns on drink and drug driving may not be pleasant but they create awareness and save lives. Poor road conditions can result in accidents, particularly at night. The recent incessant rain has caused...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Peter Fitzpatrick: ...issues such as speeding and driving while intoxicated by introducing a safer default speed limit on national secondary roads, local and rural roads and in built-up areas, introducing mandatory drug checks at collision scenes and reforming the penalty points systems to enable motorists to receive multiples sets of penalty points where multiple offences are committed. These measures are...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: ...the driver's test must also be reviewed, including a review of the minimum number of lessons. Any education and publicity measure needs to make an impact on the personal choice some drivers make in speeding, drug- and drink-driving and it needs to reach across all age groups. My final point is about enforcement and environment, speeding-prone stretches of road and traffic management...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
...behaviour but because we know this, we have to stop it and the only way to do that is to have sufficient traffic gardaí on patrol. We also know that there has been a resurgence in drink and drug driving recently and this is again because of the lack of enforcement. We need to address this urgently to stop the rise. In budget 2024, the road maintenance and safety allocation reduced...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Martin Kenny: ...notice in the last 12 months. That would indicate that they are not working at all and we need to acknowledge that there are sections that are not working in any case. We also have the whole issue of drink and drugs. The new legislation will allow gardaí to test for drugs after an accident. This is welcome and we need to see it happen. The biggest problem is that most people...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Pa Daly: ...% of gardaí on regular duty doing 12-hour shifts are doing half an hour of road traffic work on their shifts. In my experience in courts over the years, there is inevitably a mix of roads traffic policing for drink and drug driving. It is the gardaí who are on the streets late at night when people are coming out of the pubs and driving home who are the ones detecting offenders...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Imelda Munster: ...Drink driving, speeding and, as a result, road deaths had reduced massively. We have introduced new road traffic legislation in the last ten years, including lower speed limits and penalties for drug driving. The issue, however, is enforcement. It is outrageous that there has been a 40% drop in the numbers of gardaí policing the roads in the last 20 years. We all know garda...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Jack Chambers: ...intoxicated driving. Road Safety Authority research supports the data. In a national representative survey conducted in 2023, 14% of drivers reported driving within one hour of having consumed drugs in the past 30 days and 15% reported driving within one hour of drinking alcohol. The social acceptability of drink-driving also appears to be increasing, with 72% of respondents to a 2021...