Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has studied the Swedish Vision Zero programme for road safety; and his plans to implement any element of this programme here. [2896/15]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am aware of the Vision Zero Initiative. Our Road Safety Strategy 2013 to 2020 incorporates many of the same principles. Our Strategy is based on the Safe Systems approach to road safety which is built on the principles of human behaviour, human frailty and forgiving systems. This approach reinforces the concept of shared responsibility across organisations, businesses and communities. It seeks to continue to reduce road fatalities, but also has a new focus on reducing the number and severity of injuries on our roads. It covers a wide variety of sectors that contribute to, and impact, on road safety including education, law enforcement, health as well as the many aspects of transport.

Our Road Safety Strategy 2013-20 has two main objectives. The first is a reduction of road collision fatalities on Irish roads to 25 per million population or less by 2020. This means reducing deaths to 124 or fewer by 2020. The second is a provisional target for the reduction of serious injuries by 30% from 472 in 2011 to 330 or fewer by 2020 (or 61 per million population).

The Road Safety Strategy 2013 - 2020 is available to download for the Road Safety Authority website at .