Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet the Department of Justice and Equality to co-ordinate an intensification of road safety efforts in the final weeks of 2013, in view of the worrying rise in road tragedies in the first nine months of 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42902/13]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Action 111 of the Road Safety Strategy 2013 - 2020 provides for the maintenance of the Ministerial Committee on Road Safety to monitor progress on the implementation of the Strategy.

The Committee met in April this year, following the publication of the Road Safety Strategy 2013 - 2020 and the next meeting is scheduled to take place in November.

The Minister for Justice and Equality and the Garda Commissioner are among those invited to attend the meetings of the Committee. The enforcement of road traffic legislation and the current trends in road fatalities are included in the issues discussed at meetings of the Committee and I will be focussing on the period remaining in 2013 in that respect.

In addition, the Road Safety Authority meets regularly with the Gardaí to analyse the causes of road traffic collisions and to agree appropriate measures to take to enhance road safety generally.