Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 110: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the programme of activities he is undertaking to coincide with the launch of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety which is being launched on 11 May 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10148/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Road Safety Authority (RSA), which comes within the remit of my Department, is the national focal point for the Decade of Action for Road Safety in Ireland. Its role is to facilitate cooperation with regard to the Decade of Action in Ireland, to promote information about what is being organised throughout the country and to facilitate joint planning at national level.

The RSA will organise a national photo launch to announce the UN Decade of Action on the 11th May 2011. The launch will inform the public of what has happened in Ireland in terms of road safety for the past decade and will publicise activities which are being organised throughout the country by Local Authorities. It will also launch a long term campaign on road safety to run for the duration of the decade. This campaign will encourage people to continue their active support for road safety and road safety initiatives by making a public commitment to take meaningful actions in their own daily lives to make roads safer. The RSA will measure Irish progress during the Decade of Action from one year to the next by commissioning a major attitudinal and behavioural study of road user habits.

Information about events being organised throughout the country by Local Authorities will be uploaded on the RSA website www.rsa.ie and also on the World Health Organisation's website www.who.int . Information will also be published through national and local press releases.