Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 118: To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a central unit is not appointed to correlate statistics on road traffic accidents with reference to obtaining information from the Garda, the local authorities and the health services with a view to precise identification of the cause or causes with the objective of taking appropriate action to reduce the number of such accidents, particularly those ending in fatalities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9987/08]

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 119: To ask the Minister for Transport when he expects, in conjunction with other Government Departments, to be in a position to collate the data relating to fatal motor accidents; if he will put in place the necessary structures to facilitate this procedure in an effort to determine precisely the cause or causes of road traffic deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9988/08]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 118 and 119 together.

Responsibility for the collection, analysis and publication of structured information on road collisions now lies with the Road Safety Authority (RSA), under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006 (Conferral of Functions) Order 2006 (S.I. No. 477 of 2006). The Road Collision Factbook for 2006 was published by the RSA last month and is available on the RSA's website at www.rsa.ie.