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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

...typically see year-on-year in Ireland but also across Europe and in fellow EU member states. In terms of location, the counties of Tipperary, Galway, Mayo and Cork have seen the highest numbers of fatalities in 2023. Rural roads with a speed limit of 80 km per hour or more accounted for almost seven in ten of all deaths. International research and Irish data show that speeding,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

...of mobility, whether it is pedestrians, e-scooters, cyclists, cars or whatever it may be, we provide research on an ongoing basis to the agencies, including Ministers and the Minister for Transport. We have an ongoing role to play in providing that research and the evidence base for those interventions. The Deputy is correct that we are a national organisation. We do and are willing to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of our roads and junctions and recognise there has been a massive increase in the volume of traffic. Perhaps some members of the Government would rather see people not use cars at all but in rural areas there is no other way of travel. Let us think about walking or cycling today. The roads are not safe. Many roads are not safe for cyclists even on a fine day. Let us think of how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)

Ms Paula Hilman: There are rural and urban areas and a very similar population. A large group of us are going over to Scotland next month with representatives of the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Transport. How it works there is that there is a government strategy that the police then operationalise with cameras. We have had a presentation from TII about having the average...