Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 87: To ask the Minister for Transport when he issued design specifications for speed limit signs outside schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28997/05]

Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context

Question 152: To ask the Minister for Transport the date on which his Department issued the signage specifications for speed limits outside schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28996/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context

I propose to take Questions Nos. 87 and 152 together.

In January 2005, I made regulations, the Road Traffic (Speed Limit — Traffic Signs) Regulations 2005, S.I. No. 10 of 2005, prescribing the regulatory traffic signs displaying metric units of measurement, km/h, that the road authorities must provide on public roads to indicate the speed limit in force. This range of traffic signs can be deployed to indicate that a default speed limit, a special speed limit or a road works speed limit is in force.

While proposals for new formats of traffic signs are examined from time to time in my Department, the traffic sign regulations that I made in January of this year and the range of sign options already available for use since 20 January 2005 under those regulations are adequate to support the implementation of any special speed limit options. The actual provision and installation of traffic signs on public roads is a matter for each road authority and advice is set out in the traffic signs manual in this regard. A copy of the manual is available in the Oireachtas Library.