Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's focus in this area is on the implementation of the Government's Road Safety Strategy (RSS) 2021-2030. This Strategy prescribes 50 high-impact actions and 136 support actions, which aim to help reduce road deaths and serious injuries by 50% in 2030.

The matter to which the Deputy refers is Action 114 of the RSS relating to the ‘Examination of the potential for presumed liability for mechanically propelled vehicles (MPV) drivers in cases of collisions with vulnerable road user's and make recommendations’. At present we do not have immediate plans to legislate for the hierarchy of a users-based approach, but this will be considered for inclusion as part of the consolidation of road traffic legislation.