Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 7:

In page 22, after line 49, to insert the following:

"(1) As soon as may be after the end of each safety calendar year, but not later than 3 months thereafter, the Authority shall make a review of road safety in the preceding calendar year, to include performance against the annual targets set for the Authority.

(2) The Authority shall make the review available to the Minister prior to publication and the Minister may, at his or her discretion, add comment and or data to the Review, but may not subtract from it.

(3) The Minister shall cause copies of such road safety review to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas not later than 1 month after the Authority makes the review available to him or her under subsection (2).''.

This amendment deals with an issue to which we gave a very good airing on Committee Stage. It is about the road safety authority benchmarking itself on its successes or failures, and publishing a review every three months. The Bill provides that should take place every six months but a general road safety report should be published and brought before the Houses of the Oireachtas every 12 months, after the year expires. If the road safety authority is to have any real effect, it will have to benchmark itself on its successes or failures. I hope the Minister of State will look again at this amendment.