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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There has been none approved since 2014.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: Which ones have been blocked? Which ones have been vetoed?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Pauline Tully: The time is up. I want to welcome 96 students from Tullow, County Carlow, many of whom are in the Gallery. I hope they enjoy their tour and are inspired by the proceedings.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions (16 May 2024)
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Road Safety
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on his Department's work on road safety, and his plans to tackle the continuing rise in road fatalities. [22230/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: I want to get an update on the Department's work on road safety and the continued tragedy we have on our roads, with so many fatalities. Another man passed away last night after an incident in County Donegal. Too many families around the country are losing their loved ones and suffering the tragedies of road collisions and accidents. People are dealing with terrible injuries. We have been...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Jack Chambers: I would like to express my sincere condolences to the friends and families of those who have lost their lives on our roads this year. As Minister of State with responsibility for road safety, I have been working with the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, my officials, the transport agencies and across government to reverse the current trend and stop the level of fatalities on our roads. The...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: I thank the Minister of State. I am aware of that legislation and its passage. I would like clarity regarding the regulations for local authorities. I understand that local authorities will have a major role here, particularly in working out what speed limits are appropriate for particular stretches of road. Many of them are too high and need to come down but many of them may be quite...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Jack Chambers: On speed limits, there has been notification to local authorities of the legislative changes. Guidance is being finalised and will be issued to local authorities in the coming weeks. As new councillors are elected, that will commence quickly with a view to getting the wider implementation of the speed limits. As the Deputy said, it is about local authorities and councillors working...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: That is okay, but I did not hear from the Minister of State as to when the legislation will be implemented to ensure that the capabilities of these cameras can actually be used for something that will make a big difference. We hope to tease that out further in the future. The Minister recently informed the media that red light cameras, for motorists who run red lights, will be up and...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)
Jack Chambers: Section 81 of the Road Traffic Act 2010 provides for the use of cameras by the Garda to assist in the detection of certain offences. The powers have been used by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, working with the Garda. It is open to road authorities to use these powers on a similar basis for other offences. As part of our wider camera-based enforcement strategy, we want to have many...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: I do not trivialise the situations the Irish Defence Forces have encountered but there is a distinct narrative by the Government that Irish neutrality is up for grabs. The Tánaiste can shake his head all he wants but the rhetoric coming from the Government and EU leaders is that we are almost in a pre-war situation in Europe. We in the Opposition have been very concerned about this...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: On the same theme, the Tánaiste said Ireland faces security and defence challenges. He went on to list instances in which it could have been possible that a veto would be used to stop us participating in some kind of peacekeeping. According to the triple lock we participate in peacekeeping with the endorsement of the UN. I honestly think he scraped the bottom of the barrel when he...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: No peacekeeping mission has been approved by the UN Security Council since 2014.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: What ones have been blocked?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: No, you made the point there was no obstacle. None has been approved since 2014.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Bríd Smith: But what ones have been blocked?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Pauline Tully: The Tánaiste to reply.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Kenny spoke about the militarisation of Europe and that he does not want to be involved in any imperial war. We are not going to be involved in any imperial war. We need a dose of reality in this House. We are not a military power and we are nowhere near being a military power. This is about peacekeeping and the methodology by which we can participate in peacekeeping. At the...