Results 41-60 of 1,016,574 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:Bobby Aylward) in 'Committee meetings'
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Mairead Farrell: We are all thinking of the families who have been bereaved by the roads. As the Minister of State is very well aware, we had a number of tragedies that affected Galway families recently. All our thoughts are with those families and their loved ones. Over the course of this debate and those we have had over the last number of weeks, we heard of many different ways in which we can tackle...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Anois, an Teachta Fitzpatrick is sharing his time with Deputies Tóibín, Lowry and Shanahan.
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Peter Fitzpatrick: As recently as five years ago, Ireland was being celebrated within the EU for its road safety. Yet, in 2024, it is on course to prove the most lethal for traffic fatalities in 15 years. An alarming trend is in the disproportionate number of young people aged between 16 to 25 years who are involved in road fatalities. Speeding and intoxicated drivers are contributing to dozens of fatalities...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Seán Crowe: People Before Profit has six and a half minutes.
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Paul Murphy: I will speak for four and a half minutes or so and Deputy Barry will use the rest. It is about time we had a debate on the record of the RSA because it has become a sick joke. I wholeheartedly agree with the more than 30 road safety, cycling and pedestrian campaign groups that have stated that they have lost confidence in the authority because of the sharp increase in road deaths. They...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Mick Barry: There is huge concern about the increased number of deaths on our roads with many of those who have died being young. Is it a issue of individual responsibility or of society not doing what could and should be done? Important issues of personal responsibility are involved. No one is denying that, but if I read the comments made by some Ministers in recent days carefully, I see an attempt...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Brian Leddin: I relayed this personal story to the Minister of State in the past. My family, like thousands of families, has been impacted by tragedy on our roads in the years and decades gone by. I never knew my grandfather on my mother's side. He was killed when cycling on Mulgrave Street in Limerick before I was born. I wish I had known him. He was by all accounts a good and impressive man....
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Martin Browne: We need an all-round approach to road safety to reverse the worrying trend of road deaths we have seen recently. The last time I spoke about this, in February, I drew attention to the fact that the manned deterrent on the roads needs to be increased, yet the ability to provide that increased Garda presence is hamstrung by the shortage of available gardaí. This was pointedly outlined in...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Paul Donnelly: I welcome the recent Garda action against scramblers and quads in Tallaght, Ballymun and Limerick. However, it is just a drop in the ocean in terms of the problems and dangers on the roads that these vehicles, which mostly young people drive, pose. Two weeks ago, I was cycling up Dame Street and watched as three scramblers came down the street on one wheel. That is one of the main streets...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Yes.
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: -----and they are a real danger. We have had very heavy rain in the recent past - it has been unusual and exceptional - but the response from the local authorities is not good enough. There is a road out by Termonfeckin. Deputy Murphy might know it if he travels there.
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Yes.
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: It is appalling. People ring me every day with their tyres bust and nothing in their mind but anger at the lack of conviction of the council to make it safe. As regards road safety, we have a lot more to do. Let us do it.
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: I will start by echoing that point. It is not just in County Louth; in County Meath as well and, I am sure, elsewhere the road conditions are deplorable. It is causing damage to vehicles and it needs to be tackled. There needs to be increased investment to allow that to happen. I want to raise two points. One relates to Garda numbers and roads policing. Driver behaviour is...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I want to bring up a particular issue. It is the ongoing malfunction of the pedestrian lights at the roundabout with the inner relief road. I am talking about the N52 and Avenue Road, the R172, a major intersection in Dundalk. This has been brought up with me by Councillor Kevin Meenan but also here. If people put on LMFM and nearly every morning, they will hear a different elected...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Seán Crowe: You could but you are out of time.
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I may come back to the Minister of State later on the Mount Avenue project but I am dealing with the local authority at this point and we know there will be a road safety assessment because those in Headford and other areas along there are worried about particular issues there.
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. We know how devastating road deaths are. It is not for now; it is for a lifetime for families, as are the catastrophic injuries, which are life-changing for so many people. Of the 63 road deaths this year, the breakdown is 26 drivers, 19 passengers, 12 pedestrians, two cyclists and four motorcyclists, so it is not just drivers, and...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Something that has struck me in this debate so far is the emphasis on drivers only. Automobile traffic is the only thing that has been mentioned. Members have not spoken of the fact that many of the people who have died on our roads are either pedestrians or cyclists, nor has our definition of what we understand road safety to be been broadened to include all people. It reinforces for me...
- Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: This is a very important debate. I welcome the Minister of State and the comments I have heard so far. Much more needs to be done because far too many lives are being lost. The more people who die in tragic circumstances, the more appalling the vista for the families affected and the people who are injured as a result of road traffic accidents. Tens of thousands of people have significant...