Seanad debates

Thursday, 7 February 2008

10:30 am

Photo of Jerry ButtimerJerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

I join with Senator Fitzgerald and other speakers in raising the issue of road safety. I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Transport here because it is alarming that, according to today's Irish Independent, the road safety chief, Mr. Gay Byrne, stated, "It looks like we will go right through 2008 with no speed cameras, and this makes the members of the board very tetchy and makes me very tetchy." Before 2004 we were promised speed cameras. It is 2008 and we have nothing. The NRA claims responsibility for road provision and if one raises an issue here one is told it is the NRA's responsibility. The Minister is conveniently passing the buck. If that is how he treats the chairman he appointed, what does that say about how he treats the people who require, deserve and demand proper road safety? The Government is tired and jaded and has no interest except being in power. That is the bottom line.

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