Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 128: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will direct policies towards improved road safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33175/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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Road safety is already a matter to which I attach a high priority. Two recent important initiatives in this area have been the establishment by me of the Road Safety Authority on 1 September 2006, and the launch by An Taoiseach in October of the Road Safety Strategy 2007-2012. With the establishment of the RSA, a single statutory body now exists to focus on road safety matters and to co-ordinate a range of road safety initiatives. The RSA also has a key role in advising me on road safety policy. The Road Safety Strategy sets out the direction in road safety for the next six years, with the overall objective of reducing road deaths to no more than 60 per million of population by the end of 2012.