Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to requiring all local authorities to create statutory working groups inclusive of local representatives to develop localised road safety plans that would inform decisions in relation to infrastructural improvement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46375/22]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides funding to local authorities to assist in road improvements, including safety improvements. Local authorities, as the bodies responsible for roads in their area, decide where targeted investment is needed for safety reasons. This means that the objectives of the kind of working groups and plans which the Deputy is suggesting are already taken into account.

I would of course be willing to consider such proposals in future if it could be demonstrated that they would add value to the current processes.